I still cannot tell which one I hate the most: CSV or JSON. These really are hacks that should never have gotten the attention of the world, for data exchange.
At my last job (about 7 years ago) someone treated a tab delimited file as a CSV file and managed to import it into a critical system. It kind of look like it worked but then people noticed that it was actually garbage and there was no obvious way of undoing the import...
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I still cannot tell which one I hate the most: CSV or JSON. These really are hacks that should never have gotten the attention of the world, for data exchange.
At my last job (about 7 years ago) someone treated a tab delimited file as a CSV file and managed to import it into a critical system. It kind of look like it worked but then people noticed that it was actually garbage and there was no obvious way of undoing the import...