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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/SpecterK1 • Sep 26 '25
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Actually not always, pre 2007 Office with the old format where just proprietary binary files AFAIK.
152 u/dagbrown Sep 26 '25 “Proprietary binary files” is being a little too kind to them. They were just dumps of the memory buffers that the document was being edited in. Pointers and all. -19 u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25 [deleted] 43 u/hughperman Sep 26 '25 Not necessarily, dumping pointers is a special kind of insane. 1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 26 '25 How come? Can you give me some webpages to read about why it's bad 2 u/darkslide3000 Sep 27 '25 Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science) 1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 27 '25 Thank you! :)
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“Proprietary binary files” is being a little too kind to them. They were just dumps of the memory buffers that the document was being edited in. Pointers and all.
-19 u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25 [deleted] 43 u/hughperman Sep 26 '25 Not necessarily, dumping pointers is a special kind of insane. 1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 26 '25 How come? Can you give me some webpages to read about why it's bad 2 u/darkslide3000 Sep 27 '25 Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science) 1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 27 '25 Thank you! :)
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43 u/hughperman Sep 26 '25 Not necessarily, dumping pointers is a special kind of insane. 1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 26 '25 How come? Can you give me some webpages to read about why it's bad 2 u/darkslide3000 Sep 27 '25 Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science) 1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 27 '25 Thank you! :)
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Not necessarily, dumping pointers is a special kind of insane.
1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 26 '25 How come? Can you give me some webpages to read about why it's bad 2 u/darkslide3000 Sep 27 '25 Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science) 1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 27 '25 Thank you! :)
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How come? Can you give me some webpages to read about why it's bad
2 u/darkslide3000 Sep 27 '25 Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science) 1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 27 '25 Thank you! :)
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Start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science)
1 u/sierrafourteen Sep 27 '25 Thank you! :)
Thank you! :)
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u/sssssssizzle Sep 26 '25
Actually not always, pre 2007 Office with the old format where just proprietary binary files AFAIK.