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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]
Message-ID: <OEl4CwZUX8l6@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
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.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-23  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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