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@ -218,9 +218,8 @@ For some reason all three formats are being used for messaging, although
only PSYC was actually designed for that purpose.
The Internet has developed two major breeds of protocol formats.
The binary ones are extremely efficient but usually not very flexible
(unless you are willing to recompile all instances each time you
change something)
The binary ones are extremely efficient but in most cases you have
to recompile all instances each time you change something
while the plain-text ones are reaching out for achieving perfection
in data representation while leaving the path of efficiency. Some
protocols such as HTTP and SIP are in-between these two schools,
@ -255,6 +254,12 @@ you can't edit them manually and you can't produce valid messages
by replacing variables in a simple text template. You depend on
specialized parsers and renderers to be provided.
* Further Reading
http://about.psyc.eu/Spec:Syntax provides you with the ABNF grammar
of the PSYC 1.0 syntax. You may also be interested in PSYC's decentralized
state mechanism provided by the +/-/= operators.
* Appendix
** Tools used