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I strongly disagree based on decades of experience scripting in linux and needing to manipulate tabular data. Maybe you just don't know a lot of programmers. CS
by demondemidi 3y ago
I strongly disagree based on decades of experience scripting in linux and needing to manipulate tabular data. Maybe you just don't know a lot of programmers. CSV is _extremely_ useful, if you know when and how to apply it and don't push it out of it's wheelhouse.
- Klonoar 3y ago> Maybe you just don't know a lot of programmers. What a completely odd thing to say on a site like this, but alrighty. Anyway, I'll be clear: I run a business that deals with CSVs and their oddities. I am acutely aware of how well they can work. This has nothing to do with the fact that most programmers I've met, given the choice, would prefer literally any other data format.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoYou've just met at least 2 programmers who have no problem with csv. Small specs that don't define very much have a value. Least common denominators have a value. It's a problem to use the basic solution in an enterprise problem, but it's also a problem to use the enterprise solution to trivial problems.
- Klonoar 3y agoYou're noting "2" when I just said "most". Doesn't need to be a measuring contest here.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoI'm suggesting maybe you make an assumption about what most programmers you know think about a topic you probably never specifically polled every one of them on, and that whatever numbers went into "most" there are at least 2 to add in the other column. You are expressing your view, I am expressing mine, that is all.