[YouAreWRONGtoo]

The only goal of such ridiculous standards is to act as a form of vendor lock-in for vendors implementing those standards; the vendors get to say to governments that it is a standard and the sellers of the standards also get some money.

Any system designed picking such standards is basically betraying their client.

I think, if you want to annoy these people maximally, you should write an annotated version of the standard in a mathematical formal language.

I read the table constraints, which try to do something simple, but it's written in the most convoluted way possible.

I think I considered ASN.1 for a system once, but rejected it because of more modern technically superior system.

If the parser for something like ASN.1 doesn't fit in 80 lines of Haskell, perhaps you just shouldn't use it.

I don't know who these assholes are that say "Sure, let's make things slow and buggy, since we all hail Satan after all".