For best results, write your own ad-hoc data representation

Saturday 27 May 2006This is over 18 years old. Be careful.

This may sound heretical in these days of standards for everything, but I’ve had the best successes by designing my own ad-hoc data formats. Rather than adopting (or worse, adapting) a standard to fit your purposes, you should create your own data representation. It will give you the best fit for the problem at hand.

Read Own your data: ad-hoc representations.

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