[giraffe_lady]

lol what do you want here. "ok you're right, the approach that worked is bad we should have waited for the astute technical insight of an anonymous internet commenter two decades later." you got it bud A++ are you looking for work you seem delightful.

[RhodesianHunter]

I'm not sure why you're so upset over this. All I've done is point out that some people put a ton of work into a great deal of engineering effort to solve a problem that would have been trivially solved by merely using a different choice of serialization format. Even 10 years ago the technology to do so was widely available and standardized.

But I mean sure, WOOHOO, what a great achievement!