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"If I open them in Notepad" Well there's your problem.
by postalrat 5y ago
"If I open them in Notepad"
Well there's your problem.
- munk-a 5y agoThere is a definite demand for some import format that you can trivially edit - CSV excels at this right now and JSON isn't that bad. Binary dump formats definitely do have a time and a place but there is also a separate need for trivially human readable formats.
- postalrat 5y agoI guess my point is that CSVs or any text files aren't really "human readable". You still need some application top view them.
- HanaShiratori 5y agoSo what's the alternative? Good old pen and paper?
- vertere 5y agoDoesn't count, you still need light to make it human-readable. /s
- icelancer 5y agoI can - and do - read a CSV by opening it in Notepad++ to view basic data. This isn't possible with a SQLite file.
- creata 5y agoIn some incredibly pedantic sense, sure. But the difference is that every computer comes with what a human needs to read a CSV file. That's not true of an SQLite database.