20 years ago, clever consultants said the same when XML was the “next big thing”. I remember reading this book called “The XML Revolution”, which boldly stated

20 years ago, clever consultants said the same when XML was the “next big thing”. I remember reading this book called “The XML Revolution”, which boldly stated that the age of CSV and other “obscure” formats was finally over. Here we are 20 years later with the same rhetoric. CSV isn’t pretty, no, but it’s universally acceptable and works quite nicely on a Unix command line with cat, grep, and cut, so I am sure it will stick around for longer.