Serializing structured data into ASCII streams makes it very hard to then deserialize and re-structure. Plain text might be the lowest common denominator for U

Serializing structured data into ASCII streams makes it very hard to then deserialize and re-structure. Plain text might be the lowest common denominator for Unix/shell tools, but we can do far far better in how structured data is exchanged, which would make it much easier to programmatically manipulate & process.