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> PDF includes eight basic types of objects: Boolean values, Integer and Real numbers, Strings, Names, Arrays, Dictionaries, Streams, and the null object

Wait, this is more complete than SOAP. It may be a good idea to redo the IPC protocol with a different serialization format!

Well, it's a descendant of Postscript (much like JSON is a descendant of Javascript, loosely)

Society would probably never recover if we started implementing RPC-in-Postscript though.

7.5.6 "Incremental updates" from the specification is an interesting section too, speaking about accessing data people didn't think to remove from PDF files properly.

We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when we can hand that spec off to a model and tell it to build an Acrobat clone.

We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when the AI hands it back and says "no".

Or goes on strike.