From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Genealogy Software [off-topic]
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:09:28 -0500
Date: 2001-10-24T10:09:28-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD6D9A8.BCAB8E47@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ev_remove_this_ans-2410010920040001@192.168.1.254
Arthur Evans Jr wrote:
> If I were doing this, I would study GEDCOM and select an internal
> representation that can readily be converted to or from it, but I doubt
> that I would use GEDCOM itself.
That's what I mean. Many of the irritating limitations
of some software are caused by trying to squeeze the data
into a less-than-optimal data structure.
A dynamic tree/map/network/list type of structure corresponds
to the GEDCOM model of independent records with nesting and
pointers between records.
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-24 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-22 22:08 Genealogy Software Larry Hazel
2001-10-22 22:26 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 14:20 ` Larry Hazel
2001-10-23 14:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-22 22:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-23 0:53 ` Bruce or Tracy Jacobs
2001-10-23 6:54 ` Remarriages, how common is it? Petter Fryklund
2001-10-23 15:46 ` Remarriages, how common is it? [off-topic] Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 16:04 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-23 16:09 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-24 10:59 ` SV: " Bror Johansson
2001-10-23 15:40 ` Genealogy Software [off-topic] Wes Groleau
2001-10-24 13:20 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-24 15:09 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2001-10-23 13:34 ` Genealogy Software Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 13:07 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-24 13:31 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-23 17:24 ` Genealogy Software then slightly [OFF TOPIC] Martin Dowie
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