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by ngcc_hk 1513 days ago
It fit well with the network code where the other side is never be sure. Text interaction is a good initial way out of it. From old ftp, http, telnet … Xml and even json even if they are “structured” or fsm at least they are text. We can read the log.

I prefer text. Binary is too early optimisation and record oriented is too restricted.