Vitaliy <spam <at> maksimov.org> writes:
> I was waiting for the "REAL men use <     >" argument. :)

Something along the lines of 'real men use hand coded parsers for binary
streams, and code them in Pascal ?' <duck>
 
> I guess it is just another way of saying that ASCII is more human friendly.

You could say 'developer friendly' I think. Anyway automated parser generators
work very well with ASCII streams and not so well with binary sequences, so the
road to productivity is clear. Also writing parsers for anything more complex
than a few lines of BNF by hand is suicidal imho. The tools will beat one to it
every time.

Peter


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