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No it's not. ASCII doesn't give you enough metadata to permit for efficient and reliable parsing of data, you can do a lot better without using ASCII.
by ZenoArrow 11y ago
No it's not. ASCII doesn't give you enough metadata to permit for efficient and reliable parsing of data, you can do a lot better without using ASCII.
- lisivka 11y agoASCII solved problem of "few bits/bytes lost", isn't? Binary flow is divided into bytes. Bytes are divided into control sequences and text characters. Control sequences contains sequences to separate columns (tab character) and records (new line character). Moreover, all that was standardized across various platforms. It was huge improvement. It is why UNIX sticks to ASCII: to be portable.