I agree on this. There may be better ways to do things, but people are so sure that UNIX perfected everything 50 years ago that the alternatives don't get explo

I agree on this. There may be better ways to do things, but people are so sure that UNIX perfected everything 50 years ago that the alternatives don't get explored. Personally I'm not convinced that plain text is naturally better than other options, because what even constitutes plain text? We have ways of encoding our languages into bits on a disk, but without a decoder it really doesn't have any meaning. So how is that different from any other way you can encode data? Isn't the important thing that we have tools that make it easy and consistent to work with the data?