Well, I don't disagree with any of that. I wrote my comments in a bad mood and they came out harsher than I wish they had. I'm just thinking that if I was the a

Well, I don't disagree with any of that. I wrote my comments in a bad mood and they came out harsher than I wish they had. I'm just thinking that if I was the author of dbus, I wouldn't engage the noise on HN. It was an honest question and I got an honest reply, and that's great. Hey, all I did in my comment was to quote from the spec. My complaint (well, one of them) is that it's a "binary" protocol but it requires parsing just like an ascii protocol, it encodes data as ascii values and it even embeds a full ascii protocol in the auth sequence. (not to mention XML for reflection with an embedded type DSL in attributes, ...)