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1 Editors can be improved 2 Same as CSV etc then 3 Libraries can be improved 4 Escaping characters exists ASCII 1963 had 8 separators, 1965 reduced it to 4, an
by mavhc 3y ago
1 Editors can be improved
2 Same as CSV etc then
3 Libraries can be improved
4 Escaping characters exists
ASCII 1963 had 8 separators, 1965 reduced it to 4, and named them. See 6.3.12 of https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/363831.363839 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/363831.363839
- cxr 3y agoThe task here is to explain why one should use this over CSV. By your own admissions, there is no reason to prefer this over CSV.
- mavhc 3y agoThere's no standard for CSV files, thus no one can parse them properly The only time you need to escape a character is if it's a control character that's rarely used, unlike the " and , characters
- cxr 3y ago> There's no standard for CSV files Literally untrue. (And were it true, it still wouldn't be a reason why one should use this over CSV—not sure what's so hard to grasp about the conversational/contextual premise here.)