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Re:What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-... by dragonwriter on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:30AM (#23677913)
> We are talking about two machines talking to each other.

There are allnkinds of reasons machines talk to each other in human readable formats. APIsare for machine-to-machine communications, and yet APIs that speak JSON or XML are not uncommon.

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