Machines don't care. What you mean is "Developers like plain text output." If you meant to say that machines will parse content faster in plain text because th

Machines don't care. What you mean is "Developers like plain text output." If you meant to say that machines will parse content faster in plain text because there's no HTML parsing necessary then you're right, but you're also missing that there are far better formats than ascii text for passing data from one machine to another, and what format to use really depends on what the data is.