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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Subject: Re: In memory Stream
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:37:19 -0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur2v1f$2lhr7$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ur1pe2$2dt8q$1@dont-email.me

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:55:30 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On 2024-02-20 01:41, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:32:42 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>>> You did not say why JSON is needed.
>> 
>> Because it’s such a convenient meta-format,
> 
> Meta of what?

You don’t understand the concept of “meta-formats”? Maybe you prefer 
“format family” or “format superclass”. Does that help make things 
clearer? It is something easily specialized to become an application-
specific format, with less effort than creating the specific format from 
scratch.

An earlier example is XML. Also IFF on the Commodore-Amiga, from the 
1980s.

Does that help?

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-20 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-16  9:41 In memory Stream DrPi
2024-02-16 10:40 ` J-P. Rosen
2024-02-16 12:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-16 12:49 ` Pascal Obry
2024-02-16 20:19 ` Simon Wright
2024-02-16 21:54 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-17  9:19   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-17 22:00     ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-18 10:06       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-17 13:36 ` DrPi
2024-02-17 14:26   ` J-P. Rosen
2024-02-17 14:42     ` DrPi
2024-02-17 18:52       ` J-P. Rosen
2024-02-18  0:02       ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-17 14:48     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-17 14:28   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-17 14:56     ` DrPi
2024-02-17 18:09     ` Simon Wright
2024-02-17 21:33       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-18 10:06         ` Simon Wright
2024-02-18 13:02           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-18 20:58             ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-18 22:10               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-18 23:44                 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-19  8:32                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-20  0:41                     ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-20  8:55                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-20 19:37                         ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro [this message]
2024-02-20 20:45                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-20 22:32                             ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-21  7:43                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-21 19:44                                 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-22  8:54                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-22 19:53                                     ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-03-25 11:07                                       ` Nioclásán Caileán Glostéir
2024-03-25 21:21                                         ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-18  0:00   ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-18 10:06     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-18 20:56       ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-18 22:10         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-18 23:47           ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-19  8:39             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-20  0:43               ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-19  9:24         ` Björn Lundin
2024-02-19  9:46           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2024-02-20  0:42             ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-04-02  0:21               ` Kevin Chadwick
2024-04-02  0:27                 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-04-02  3:27                   ` Kevin Chadwick
2024-04-03 19:43                     ` Pól Niocláſ Caileán Gloſtéir
2024-04-03 22:44                       ` Chris Townley
2024-02-18 11:36     ` Björn Lundin
2024-02-18 20:57       ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-02-19 14:59         ` Björn Lundin
2024-02-19 17:01           ` Chris Townley
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