@ilja@amolith Just because it's plaintext doesn't mean that any given problem domain has an obvious, canonical and immediately intuitive representation.
Without reading the comment context I'm assuming this person means "I'm used to all these binary tools for solving certain problems, what are some ways people are solving the same problems productively with plaintext tools? I'd rather get pointers and a head start than repeating decades of trial and error".
@clacke@amolith Yeah, later on I started to realise people these days sometimes do everything on their phone instead of pc. For those people such a comment would also make sense.