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Subject: Re: The Book Problem, Open Book Format proposal, Request for comments.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:52:15 03/03/06

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On March 03, 2006 at 16:43:23, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 03, 2006 at 16:38:43, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On March 03, 2006 at 16:07:37, Greg Simpson wrote:
>>
>>>On March 03, 2006 at 14:55:53, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I don't think that the Polyglot book is a good starting point.
>>>
>>>What do you think of the general idea of having the book moves generated in
>>>between the program and the GUI like Polyglot does?
>>
>>I don't have any problem with that.  I just don't think that the format contains
>>sufficient information.
>
>Perhaps it doesn't, but nobody suggested to use the PolyGlot book format
>as it is.  We just propose to use it as a *starting point*, and to extend the
>format to include all the information we desire.

I think that the book should be ANSI/ISO SQL.  In that way, different authors
can easily pull up all sorts of interesting statistical inferences without
having to reprogram anything.

There are plenty of open-source friendly modeled SQL database systems that could
be used:

SQLite
FastDB
even PostgreSQL

as examples.

If we use a database, then we can create indexes to greatly speed up operations.
 We will have at our disposal all sorts of operations which can be performed
against the data.



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