Re: [LAU] Why telnet for communication between applications?

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:17:01PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
>
>> In the 1980's a lot of protocols were binary, and designed for use over slow serial links. Nowadays, it seems like new protocols are mostly text-based and descended from HTTP or other Internet RFC's.
>
> With as a result that sender apps are wasting their
> time by converting internal binary data to <whatever
> bloated format>, and receivers by doing the inverse
> operation... :-]

In the general case, where networked computers may have different
endian orientation or floating point representations, that is actually
necessary.

-- 
 joq
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