Access to a well-established set of tools for operating on unstructured text (coreutils, grep, sed, awk, etc.).
That's not the benefit of text, just adoption. All these tools could've just as well grown to be popular with a proper format, and your point would be exactly the same
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That's not the benefit of text, just adoption. All these tools could've just as well grown to be popular with a proper format, and your point would be exactly the same