> When someone suggests using something other than "text" (usually it's some binary format, I consider S-Expressions to be text), I always wonder, why is this p

> When someone suggests using something other than "text" (usually it's some binary format, I consider S-Expressions to be text), I always wonder, why is this person writing their suggestion using text? Of course Unix actually operations on streams of bytes, which often represent text, but not always.