Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009)
by db48x on Monday July 30, 2018 @01:48PM
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The point of it is to discuss handling and parsing binary data. You could replace it with any binary format you want and have similar pedagogic value. FLAC, Vorbis, h.264, Matroska, etc.
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Yes, that's a good point. Many binary file formats will also be quite complex, so it makes sense to restrict oneself to a useful subset of the data in a file. Otherwise one would be busy to explain complicated data representation specifics.
Another example could metadata in image (jpg, ...) files for example.