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by HillRat 3218 days ago
Yeah, ACH is surprisingly not-unpleasant, at least relative to nightmares like X12 EDI with its implicit looping constructs and billions of companion guides that supercede random parts of the base spec.
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X12 EDI, been there earned the badge, both on the generating and receiving sides. 837, 834, 835 and others in health care - fun! Positional format, with situational meaning... really it is a fascinating format.
Don't you mean nightmare format?
Nightmares can be fascinating
i wrote the X12 EDI stuff for a major clearwater distributor... also wrote the ACH stuff that dumped someone a file and their job was to upload it via SFTP to the bank. so many badges.