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		Rusky on Dec 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Comprehensive Overview of Windows 8 Metro App De... Parsing a byte and two length-prefixed strings is harder than a text-based protocol? I'm having a hard time believing anyone could think that.

Someone on Dec 11, 2011 [–]

I may be too cynical, but I think there are zillions of programmers who do not know what network byte order is, or even what a byte is.

If you work on server-side stuff on the back-end of some web app, you do not really need (for some definition of 'need'h to know either.

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