From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ebbccbc114d641e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-24 08:09:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BD6D9A8.BCAB8E47@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Genealogy Software [off-topic] References: <3BD498DF.27E8B66C@otelco.net> <3BD58F53.7A3F89B@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:09:28 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1003936175 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:09:35 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:09:35 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15128 Date: 2001-10-24T10:09:28-05:00 List-Id: 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