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I've never understood the reasoning behind using a textual serialization format that's not human readable. If you don't want it to be readable, make the darn t

I've never understood the reasoning behind using a textual serialization format that's not human readable. If you don't want it to be readable, make the darn thing binary and go for efficiency.

pbreit 12y ago
There's a difference between prioritizing readability and simply being readable.
- mackwic 12y ago
  Please explain the trade off, I can't see myself debugging an unindented XML file without an appropriate reader. Exactly like a binary file.