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by 1_player 2109 days ago
I agree totally with you, but designing a language that's not "meant for humans" is an _incredibly_ stupid idea. Of course humans will try and write any protocol by hand. Who's gonna stop me?

If it looks like text, make it as easy as possible for humans to consume and write by hand. Period.

That's a small but very important reason why HTTP rules the world.