> But I'm not sure I've, in my entire 23-year professional programming career, ever encountered a fixed-width text format in the wild. SAP comes to mind. I thi

> But I'm not sure I've, in my entire 23-year professional programming career, ever encountered a fixed-width text format in the wild. SAP comes to mind. I think it does support various different formats, but for reason or another fixed-width seemed to be some kind of default value (that's what I usually got when I asked for SAP feed at least, but that was years ago).