[stinos]

they'd let you include commas, line feeds/carriage returns, etc within your data records

And there would also be less ambiguity as to what seperator to use. I understand the popularity of CSV, but it's really not so nice to share data with. German customers want semicolons as a seperator, the US ones claims they are right 'because after all it is called comma-seperated and else I cannot import it in Excel' (sic). Etc.