Re: The format is not the data

[email protected] (Eric Wilhelm)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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# from Adam Kennedy
# on Thursday 07 January 2010 02:04:

>However, the format LIMITS the data.

Or data limits the format.

>If you go with arbitrary formats though, this does seem to lead you
>towards a solution that involves tabular data rather than tree data,

To me, it's not worth letting the big data (indexes) be non-tabular.

--Eric
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