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Storytime with Steve Yegge (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

CHAPTER

The Virtues of Text Protocols

Text is king okay and binary formats are wonderful and have their purpose but text is the ultimately flexible ultimately debuggable human readable it's a it's a currency you know. There were people at Amazon who were like don't ever use regular expressions because they're slow right when they could have written 2500 lines of C++ that was actually slower. I'm sorry you guys are gonna get me ranting no that's what I'm trying to doYeah I mean this is our goal I'm saving it but I'm sure I'll really get a bit, he says.

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