A lot of developers talk smack about CSV files (or tab delimited) but they really are the workhorse of our industry. They're simple, textual, compress really w

A lot of developers talk smack about CSV files (or tab delimited) but they really are the workhorse of our industry. They're simple, textual, compress really well, and as long as everyone on both sides has an agreement about the format, they're almost a standard. sure, a lot of the criticisms of CSV are true, but given the above constraints it's really hard to beat them.