From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: OT: Looking for a protocol
Date: 22 Jan 2006 19:45:04 -0600
Date: 2006-01-22T19:45:04-06:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 1137963183.12158.4.camel@sonnenregen
In article <1137963183.12158.4.camel@sonnenregen>, Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
> On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 11:35 -0600, Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>
>
>> One can think of it as XML without the wasted space.
>
> Oh well, why use Ada with all this unnecessary
> repetitive syntax.
The repetitive syntax in Ada is to promote human understanding.
ASN.1 is a tightly specified machine representation, for which
excessive verbiage accomplishes nothing.
> One can also think of ASN.1 as requiring a very well
> working environment, and also additional software for
> debugging, unless you are satisfied with deciphering
> bit combinations in a debugging situation.
I think of all protocol implementation as being of that nature.
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2006-01-22 1:53 OT: Looking for a protocol Steve
2006-01-22 5:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-01-22 11:51 ` Adrien Plisson
2006-01-22 15:42 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-22 16:42 ` Larry Elmore
2006-01-22 17:35 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-01-22 20:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-01-23 1:45 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2006-01-23 1:31 ` Steve
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