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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> writes: >> I think that having a file format that enables simple means to >> achieve simple (but specialized) ends is essential to a good >> toolkit. > > Any SQL implementation refutes that. Nobody touches the SQL data file > itself, they all go through a SQL interpreter that accesses the data > on their behalf. Specialized ends are implemented on top of this > interpreter. > > Granted, this means we'd need a well-defined way to do pretty much > anything through whatever means we provide, but saying "access to the > file is required" is just plain wrong. "Access to the data" is a more > appropriate requirement, but making the data file tweakable is a weak > solution to that - no controls, no validation, etc. Just telling that the easy "access to the file" is the main reason I still use geda-gaf and pcb. As easy as on the shell commandline, via svn diff, grep ^refdes=R|sort, awk, sed. We should train our students more unix plumbing, it can give such a boost in productivity. -- Stephan
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