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Unfortunately, ASCII delimiter fields were used streaming data. The pain that created was simple - you'd try to send data containing an RS or a US and it would cause bad things to happen on the other end of the wire.

> Imagine the amount of pain that could have been spared if we had done it right from the start some 50 years ago.

I think it's Putt's Law: If you design something for idiots, someone will make a better idiot. In this case, it took less than 15 years.



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