> prefer plain text over most "smart" formats To be usable and easily read, plain text needs word spacing and line breaking, which is a form of "smart" formatt

> prefer plain text over most "smart" formats To be usable and easily read, plain text needs word spacing and line breaking, which is a form of "smart" formatting. > Why have we settled on programs written in text? Again, text with newlines, indenting, and fixed width fonts, without which it can't be read. So we're talking 2D text here.