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> passing around all data as text is suboptimal

POSIX is not Unix.

Passing data around as text is a tenet of the Unix philosophy, while AFAIK POSIX doesn't mandate any of that.

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Actually it does, POSIX also specifies many of the standard (text-based) UNIX utilities:

> "POSIX is not Unix."

"This is just one example of where the old ways aren't necessarily the best."

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Actually it does, POSIX also specifies many of the standard (text-based) UNIX utilities:

> "POSIX is not Unix."

"This is just one example of where the old ways aren't necessarily the best."

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