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I love your post, and agree to everything, except the last 2 sentences. Yes, CSV is broken beyond repair. But this doesn't make the choice of separator immateri
by teo_zero 2y ago
I love your post, and agree to everything, except the last 2 sentences. Yes, CSV is broken beyond repair. But this doesn't make the choice of separator immaterial. It's broken for other reasons AND for the separator. A character that's already profusely found in texts and numbers... I would even argue that it would be difficult to find a WORSE separator. Probably only space and hyphen qualify.
- Ekaros 2y agoFull stop would be even worse. Apostrophe would be runner up... Always the seemingly simple solutions have most issues in real world... At some level still trying to edit stuff by hand might be where we have gone wrong for long time. Why don't we have any sensible agreed structured format for which tools would be on all and every device...