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> There's nothing wrong with CSVs/TSVs anyway The first CSV file was created in 1983. The first CSV standard was created in 2005[1]. The two decades of CSV su
by shalmanese 6y ago
> There's nothing wrong with CSVs/TSVs anyway
The first CSV file was created in 1983. The first CSV standard was created in 2005[1].
The two decades of CSV surviving as an informal standard means that it takes minutes to make a 95% complete CSV parser and an infinite amount of time to make a 99.99% complete CSV parser.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#History