According to ASN.1 Wikipedia entry, most of the tools supporting ASN.1 do the following: 1) parse the ASN.1 files, 2) generates the equivalent declaration in a

According to ASN.1 Wikipedia entry, most of the tools supporting ASN.1 do the following: 1) parse the ASN.1 files, 2) generates the equivalent declaration in a programming language (like C or C++), 3) generates the encoding and decoding functions based on the previous declarations All of these of exercise are apparently part of data engineering process or lifecycle [1]. Back in early 21st century Python is just another interpreted general purpose programming language alternative, not for web (PHP), not for command tool (TCL), not for system (C/C++), not for data wrangling (Perl), not for numerical (Matlab/Fortran), not for statistics (R). D will probably follow similar trajectory of Python, but it really needs a special kind of killer application that will bring it to the fore. I'm envisioning that real-time data streaming, processing and engineering can be D killer utility and defining moment that D is for data. [1] Fundamentals of Data Engineering: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/9781098108298/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/97...