Fwd: Re: IVOA Thesaurus

From: Brian Thomas <thomas-at-astro.umd.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:21:01 -0400


On Thursday 01 November 2007 1:06:55 pm Frederic V. Hessman wrote:
> At the time, there where lots of voices saying that, while you are
> perfectly correct (and I'd prefer to have them as humanly readable as
> possible), the realities of computer-based parsing mean that a
> trivial token format costs less pain.
>
> How about an official show of hands?

Could we have the arguments against human readable again first, before voting?

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On Thursday 01 November 2007 1:06:55 pm Frederic V. Hessman wrote:
> At the time, there where lots of voices saying that, while you are  
> perfectly correct (and I'd prefer to have them as humanly readable as  
> possible), the realities of computer-based parsing mean that a  
> trivial token format costs less pain.
>
> How about an official show of hands?

Could we have the arguments against human readable again first, before voting?

-brian Received on 2007-11-01Z21:21:22