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		_pmf_ on May 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work A thought experiment: is it advisable to save mission critical, structured information as a loose collection of schemaless text files? If it is not advisable, why is it accepted for software engineering professionals to manage their source code this way?

octo_t on May 27, 2014 [–]

well a programming language with a specification has a pretty well-defined schema.

The E?-BNF provides a syntactical schema for the code and the rest of specification provides the semantic schema.

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