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Originally Posted by scampos
I am always amazed at how easy it is to dismiss other peoples work as "too simple"! You've clearly not understood what CS is about. Problems in CS range from "too simple" to "rather difficult" to "unsolvable", as in any other area.
Here is a interesting observation, ever wondered why Adobe hasn't put out the "digital editions" yet ? Maybe this piece of software is not so simple after all... Can you think of any other examples ?
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I did not say it was simple. I said it was not difficult
so long as you have the file format specifications. And it's not, if instead of writing the program, you write the flex and yacc spec files to make a parser that will do it for you. For example, over the weekend I wrote separate parsers for HTML, TXT, RTF. The parsers are complete enough to show that they are fully functional, but don't yet output anything meaningful.
Now, working with an unexplained file type like LRF can be very difficult. I hold anyone who does this in high esteem.
But the point I tried to make before is that Sony has the LRF specs. They could have made the conversion software themselves, and released it with Connect.