[peterwwillis]

You're already dependent on tools - your eyes and language processing parts of your brain - to use text formats. With a binary protocol you'd be equally dependent on tools. They're just not embedded in your skull.

Seeing as we use binary protocols every day of our lives, and the tools to work with them have existed for years, and nobody has any problem with using them, let's let this argument rest.

[Dylan16807]

"Here is a ridiculous stretch of semantics because I can't admit anyone else has a point. Also let's stop arguing at the end of this sentence to avoid rebuttal."

d-(^.^)z