Just as if a smalltalk enthusiast proposed exchange of serialized smalltalk-images as the universal solution for data interchange. That's not a bad idea, and a

Just as if a smalltalk enthusiast proposed exchange of serialized smalltalk-images as the universal solution for data interchange. That's not a bad idea, and as I understand it, the Lisp operating systems back in the day passed actual objects back and forth between programs instead of strings.