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Re: encodings: do we need binary at all?
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- Subject: Re: encodings: do we need binary at all?
- From: "marcus (m.d.) leech" <mleech@bnr.ca>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 08:50:57 -0500
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> > I don't think that TLV is necessarily a bad thing, but certainly ASN.1
> > is an elephantine mess. Consider that one of its EARLY (ca 1988)
> > formal specifications is over 400 pages. Consider the BNF specification
> > for ANSI C is 6 pages! The "standard reference text" for ANSI C is,
> > including the BNF and index, 272 pages.
>
> X.208 (ASN:1988) is 48 pages. How did you arrive at 400+ pages?
>
I was looking at X.209 which granted, isn't just the BNF for ASN.1,
but the all the other semantic stuff. Since such standards are
formal documents, I feel justified in my comparison.
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