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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:10:50 -0600
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am'
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isn't this the "i don't trust new software" argument resurrected?
let's all install V7 from mag tape on our pdp-11s. ;-)

sorry. i couldn't resist.

- erik

On Fri Feb 10 16:54:45 CST 2006, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > Would you pick
> > XML or ASN.1 if those were the only two options?  If the pointy-haired
> > powers that be are mandating one or the other and, ``neither'' isn't in
> > the range of possible solutions?
> 
> What are the alternatives?  My pick is ASN.1, any time.  You can call
> the ITU-T by as many ugly names as you like, but their standards are
> considerably more firm than more recent publications.
> 
> ++L
>