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> Passing strings from program to program is a pain

The internet has been pretty successful and many popular protocols (http, smtp, etc) are exactly "passing strings from program to program"

>>throwa+(OP)
Which is why all browsers render the same thing exactly the same way and there's no need at all to test more than one. Yep.

>>AnIdio+z
The presentation layer has nothing to do with he protocol layer...

If you pump some serialised binary into a browser it will still render wrong.

>>throwa+(OP)
And behind the scenes of internet-based services there's a whole ecosystem of "how can we do shit more robustly than just passing strings around" (or even for "better than XML or JSON").