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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] re: spam filtering fs
Date: Thu,  4 Sep 2003 07:42:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030904074249.M15496@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9121b85ec02fee5a2d80a8d629e5d0ae@plan9.bell-labs.com>; from David Presotto on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:54:03PM -0400

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:54:03PM -0400, David Presotto wrote:
>
> We have a whole bunch of people here who each started writing an ASN.1
> compiler (or stub generator or whatever you call it), gathered up
> the 4 feet worth of documentation, started writing YACC scripts,
> and then said ``they can't possibly mean that, this is too much work,
> I think I'll so something easy instead.''

Any leftovers that I may be able to use?  ASN.1 (well, BER, anyway)
looks like a one-off solution to a large number of problems in my
unsophisticated view.  It is overspecified, but that's ITU-T for
you:  specifications with no (easily identified) legal loopholes.

All ASN.1 compilers I have ever heard mentioned are proprietary
tools, having a Plan 9 "open source" version would be real asset.

Not that I'm an authority on this, I seem to be working very much
in a vacuum every time I consider any ITU-T offering.

++L

PS: To be perfectly honest, I think Inferno/Limbo would be even more
useful to develop mail processing tools and I wonder if forsyth and
friends shouldn't be closely involved.  Then we have stuff that will
run on Windows, where it is much more necessary.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-04  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2003-09-01 15:45 ` steve.simon
2003-09-02  1:43   ` ron minnich
2003-09-02  1:53     ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-02  1:58       ` ron minnich
2003-09-02  2:04         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-09-02  2:15           ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-02  2:12         ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-02  2:00     ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-02 13:56     ` Eric Grosse
2003-09-02 16:08       ` Dan Cross
2003-09-02 21:28         ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-02 22:16         ` david presotto
2003-09-02 22:36           ` ron minnich
2003-09-03  0:59             ` Dan Cross
2003-09-03  1:50               ` Geoff Collyer
2003-09-03  3:35                 ` Micah Stetson
2003-09-03 12:43                   ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-03 12:41                 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-03  5:48               ` david presotto
2003-09-07  1:56                 ` Dan Cross
2003-09-07  4:04                   ` ron minnich
2003-09-07  5:34                     ` Dan Cross
2003-09-07  8:51                       ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-07 19:34                         ` ron minnich
2003-09-07 12:35                   ` David Presotto
2003-09-07 19:05                     ` Dan Cross
2003-09-07 20:15                       ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-08  2:22                       ` Geoff Collyer
2003-09-08  5:21                         ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-08  9:45                           ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-03 12:37               ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-03 14:09                 ` matt
2003-09-03 13:42                   ` Russ Cox
2003-09-03 16:21                     ` Dan Cross
2003-09-03  7:38         ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-09-03  7:59       ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-03  8:24         ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-09-03 12:03         ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-03 19:54           ` David Presotto
2003-09-03 21:26             ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-04  5:42             ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2003-09-04  6:15               ` George Michaelson
2003-09-04  6:10                 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-04  6:31                   ` George Michaelson
2003-09-04 14:07                   ` ron minnich
2003-09-03 14:27         ` ron minnich
2003-09-02 15:57     ` Dan Cross
2003-09-01 20:31 matt
2003-09-03  9:13 lucio
2003-09-03 10:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-09-03 12:25 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-04  4:57   ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-05  1:43     ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-05  1:52       ` David Presotto
2003-09-05  2:17         ` boyd, rounin

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