> I admire these old protocols ... The protocols that have a response code with an explanation is helpful. A help command is also helpful. So, I had written NN

> I admire these old protocols ... The protocols that have a response code with an explanation is helpful. A help command is also helpful. So, I had written NNTP server that does that, and the IRC and NNTP client software I use can display them. > Makes me think it's a shame that making a json based protocol is so much easier to whip up ... I personally don't; I find I can easily work with text-based protocols if the format is easily enough. I think there are problems with JSON. Some of the problems are: it requires parsing escapes and keys/values, does not properly support character sets other than Unicode, cannot work with binary data unless it is encoded using base64 or hex or something else (which makes it inefficient), etc. There are other problems too. > Like imagine if in python there was some library that you gave an ebnf spec ... Maybe it is possible to add such a library in Python, if there is not already such things.