Everything about Data Format Description Language

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Data Format Description LanguageA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Pride and PrejudiceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Go sideways: Canonical S-expressionsA closely related topic
4. Go sideways: DelimiterA closely related topic

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📚 Books worth reading

• Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813
• King Solomon's MinesH. Rider Haggard · 1876
• Research DesignJohn W. Creswell, J. David Creswell · 1994
• Technical CommunicationJohn M. Lannon · 2000
• Clean CodeRobert C. Martin · 2008
• Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
• XML in a nutshellElliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means · 2001
• Cataloger, Editor and ScholarRobert P. Holley · 2006

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