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Re: gEDA-user: n00b question: English - Metric connections
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:01:06 -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
> Really makes
> you wonder why binary files are so popular. Probably because it's easier
> to do an fwrite()/fread() on a huge data structure in memory than to
> write text input parsers.
Probably because binary formats promote vendor lock-in. There is a reason
why the *.doc format has never been disclosed by Microsoft.
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