[fictorial]

TNetStrings seems quite similar to Bencode less the size prefix.

http://tnetstrings.org

http://enwp.org/Bencode

(sample implementation) https://github.com/bittorrent/bencode/blob/master/bencode/__...

[zedshaw]

Yep, except, not crazy. :-)

[fictorial]

Care to elaborate? :)