More to the point, it's easy to export from Excel, which is a massive pain to load in any non-.NET language. While it's great to hope to use a well defined tra

More to the point, it's easy to export from Excel, which is a massive pain to load in any non-.NET language. While it's great to hope to use a well defined transport for machine-to-machine communication, it's exhausting to explain anything beyond CSV to Bob from sales.