RE: Examples of ASN.1 for SMIng.txt

["Amardeo Sarma" <sarma@ccrle.nec.de>]

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> From: owner-sming@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-sming@ops.ietf.org]On
> Behalf Of Andy Bierman
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:09 PM
> To: j.larmouth@salford.ac.uk
> Cc: sming@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Examples of ASN.1 for SMIng.txt
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> I don't think this proposed syntax is very user-friendly.
> I strongly oppose using this syntax because it is not
> familiar to a significant percentage of the user population.
> The other proposals look like SMIv2, or C, or java -- syntaxes
> that are already well-known.
>
How user-friendly a syntax is also depends on the availability of good
tools. This will in my view be more crucial than prima facie similarity with
C or Java to allow users to quickly adopt or use a language productively.

Amardeo.

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