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Subject: Re: The PGN specification, and attempts to change it

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:38:16 09/11/01

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On September 11, 2001 at 00:45:08, Frank Schneider wrote:

>On September 10, 2001 at 21:27:27, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Better yet, why not define the new standard in terms of a formal BNF grammar?
>
>I completely agree, why not define something new that is very easy to parse.
>No need to make it readable for humans, they will use a GUI anyway.

I disagree here. I often edit PGN manually.

For any kind of protocol or standard, it being text usually
helps LOADS during debugging, and being able to edit manually
always comes in handy.

--
GCP



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