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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: OT: Looking for a protocol
Date: 22 Jan 2006 19:45:04 -0600
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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.