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The point of it is to discuss handling and parsing binary data. You could replace it with any binary format you want and have similar pedagogic value. FLAC, Vor
by db48x 8y ago
The point of it is to discuss handling and parsing binary data. You could replace it with any binary format you want and have similar pedagogic value. FLAC, Vorbis, h.264, Matroska, etc.
- lispm 8y agoYes, that's a good point. Many binary file formats will also be quite complex, so it makes sense to restrict oneself to a useful subset of the data in a file. Otherwise one would be busy to explain complicated data representation specifics. Another example could metadata in image (jpg, ...) files for example.