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Re: [e-lang] Re: Protocol implementation errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Sun Oct 5 11:07:42 2003
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From: "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap@eros-os.org>
To: e-lang@mail.eros-os.org
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In-Reply-To: <200310040558.h945wnP15419@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 05 Oct 2003 11:03:59 -0400
Peter:
I agree that ASN.1 is statically checkable, and that this is an
important property.
However, ASN.1 is notoriously hard to parse, which leads to errors.
I do wonder if we shouldn't design a format that captures the best of
both worlds...
shap
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