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"Even though one can argue that source codes of programs, web pages and XML files, OS file names and other computer-to-computer text interfaces should never have existed, as long as they do exist, text is not only for human readers."

I'm a little confused by this statement. Can someone clarify?

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I think the author wants to say that a) computers should use appropriate binary formats for communication between them (e.g. from a web server to a browser), b) they don’t and use plain text in many cases (e.g. HTML) and hence c) text is not only read by humans but also by computers.

I am not entirely sure whether that makes any sense, though.

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