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Choice is a good thing.. do you use a fork, to open doors, eat,scratch your foot, kill flies, start a fire, just because you have to use the one-and-ultimate tool ?

json are not the best for every scenario, as also msgpack does not have the best fitness for everything..

Nature is pretty wise on that matter, it "launch" several possibilities, cause the environment is always changing.. so in a particular giver scenario, one of the possibilities (biological agents) can succed..

but that one that succeded in a particular scenario, will fail in another, where now, another subject who has failed is the better option, adaptation..

so.. choise is a good thing.. why people are so lazy, and dont like to think? everything must be ready..

its our duty to choose the best tool to solve a given problem.. its cool that i can even use something "obsolet" from the 1800´s to solve a 2012 problem..

So if we keep thinking.. "oh that old unwanted thing from the past", we will never see it..

Winners are only winners in a given scenario.. its good to have choice, even against all boards and standards i prefer to decide from myself, than to have others to do that decision for me..

This is technology, not fashion.



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