From: Intransition Date: 2011-06-26T08:40:30+09:00 Subject: Re: SPDX (and the glazing of ones eyes) On Jun 25, 7:04 pm, Phillip Gawlowski wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On the other hand, disk space sometimes serves well as a rule of thumb > > for determining human readability -- where the more space it takes up > > relative to the actual data it contains, the harder it is likely to be > > for a human to make sense of it in a text file. > > Not when I'm using a computer for data storage and retrieval. Calling > a data-format "human readable" is a nice piece of marketing, but is > worthless as a feature: Flat text always lacks the ability to > visualize data in an easy manner, something a computer program can > provide with ease (not to mention the side effects of easy search). Haha. Human readable is worthless. I now think you must be arguing for arguing sake. > DPST,MS,000,01,0000001,2967297,210956,205672,208248,224619,210894,199082,18 8171,187368,187579,208369,208607,186569,160756,120523,93946,69876,51703,443 59,1441240,107465,105042,106606,114145,105433,98610,92461,91364,91664,10127 1,100994,89321,77111,56200,42228,28913,19366,13046,1526057,103491,100630,10 1642,110474,105461,100472,95710,96004,95915,107098,107613,97248,83645,64323 ,51718,40963,32337,31313,36.0,34.5,37.5,2299852,1100634,1199218,2211742,105 5477,1156265,2072004,985147,1086857,473309,204243,269066,380407,159753,2206 54,2967297,2933190,1754684,1098385,15030,25742,5494,4474,3562,807,1537,7025 ,2843,1187,252,560,135,240,38162,34107,6714,4205,11088,3715,1782807,1115801 ,25910,32560,2776,44114,2967297,81481,52459,5888,2063,21071,2885816,2967297 ,81481,32397,4873,1185,265,239,36334,6188,2885816,1722287,1093512,13845,254 77,948,1828,27919,2967297,2875333,1115768,506633,880481,620956,238272,11987 9,21751,134179,10837,5334,63270,91964,55135,40253,14882,36829,18760,18069,1 115768,770266,336280,506633,198257,57661,26355,205972,111668,345502,293807, 133519,30324,160288,75845,399211,279605,2.58,3.11,1274719,1115768,158951,44 735,1920,16886,4915,28867,61628,2.1,11.6,1115768,777073,338695,2017902,8574 31,2.60,2.53 > > That's a nice and concise 1212 bytes, isn't it? ;) Loose the program that understands this jibberish and it's worthless. On the other hand it doesn't need a verbose 100x the size rendering in XML either. The best formats are Goldilocks.