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Bob Wyman wrote:
> It also means that 20 years from now, when someone comes up
> with some amazing new syntax, my ASN.1 based system will be able to
> communicate with it by simply changing encoding rules, not abstract
> syntax. Just as the ASN.1 modules that I wrote back in the early 80's,
> in a very different world, can be used virtually unchanged today to
> generate valid XML. If I had defined those old modules in a concrete
> syntax, I would have to rewrite program logic today, not simply link
> in the E-XER encoding rules...
Hm.
I find it more valuable that new programs should be able
to read old data than that old programs should handle
(the same old data structures dressed up in) new concrete
syntax.
--Joe English
jenglish@flightlab.com
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