[YLUG] Parsable Rack Diagrams

[Noah Slater]

> All this fascinating discussion of markup languages, databases, object
> persistence, etc in the context of storing a simple text representation
> of a rack and drawing a picture or two reminds me of the following:

Nice link. However, I think that's a vast over-simplification of the
problem at hand.

It all depends on how robust or future proof Alex needs this to be.

If it's a one-off task or something only he will ever use, you could
probably knock something up with flat text files and a bash script. If
he plans to hand this over to anyone in the future or integrate it
into a mission critical system (mission critical is anything where
management or another department is concerned) then you need to
engineer this kind of flexible solution.


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