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My personal take on this is that it is not complexity but accessibility. I think FAST is simple but becoming harder to understand. I think for people, like me, without formal IT training, my academic background is engineering, some aspects of the documentation are initially hard to follow. That said, other coders I work with, who have a formal IT background find the documentation, unambiguous and easy to follow. Perhaps an approach around this is to clearly state that examples are exactly that and that if they introduce ambiguity then the formal part of the documentation takes precedence. I think we should seek to address this by providing documentation, more sample code etc, rather than by compromising the protocol. Just a thought Cheers Kevin > All, > > following up on today's call; > > An important point that was raised by Jim was the fact that FAST is > already perceived as "too complex" and the added complexity that follows > from the 1.2 extension proposals threaten to fragment FAST > implementations and users. > > My view is that FAST is simple, but as they say: "Beauty is in the eye > of the beholder" ... > > All joking aside, I'd like to get your help. > > In general; > - What do we need to do to assist in understanding FAST? > - Do we need a 1.1/1.2 impl that demonstrates the full feature set? > > About the 1.2 proposal; > - Should we skip one or more of the proposed extensions? > - Should we modify one or more of them? > - Should we add some other extension? > > > Thx, Rolf [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
