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Define “better”.

There are a plethora of alternate ways to represent knowledge. Each has its own set of trade-offs. Which do you prioritize?

Ease of editing Interoperability/readability in multiple systems Expressive styling Optimized for configurations Optimized for readable text Etcetera

Fill out that list, stack rank it and tell us which format is better.

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Better technology works like this: some people pioneer in it and most people are skeptical initially. Eventually, almost everyone transfer to using the better technology, and will wonder how they ever coped with the older technology.

I know, we don't get many of these in this field anymore. I think this means something.

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