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> CSV is ubiquitous but has no singularly well-adopted standard RFC4180 exists regardless of adoption level. In a way, the simplicity of the spec causes the p
by recursive 4y ago
> CSV is ubiquitous but has no singularly well-adopted standard
RFC4180 exists regardless of adoption level. In a way, the simplicity of the spec causes the proliferation of grammars. No one thinks they can just yolo a PDF by hand in a text editor. Ok, maybe PDF is a bad example. But CSV (as specified in RFC4180) is so dead simple that people take shortcuts.
- yosai 4y agoYes you are absolutely right..We need a solution beyond standard as 80% businesses run on CSV..
- ed_elliott_asc 4y ago99.99%?
- groestl 4y agoAnd that's only the portion the businesses know about.
- thedudeabides5 4y agoworking on it, this is a hard problem actually