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by noitpmeder 600 days ago
Reminds me of when I used to write a CSV for some critical business function, and consumers refused to read by column name instead of by index, even after promising they had fixed their code.

Only took a day or two of randomly shuffling around column orders on every write for them to see sense!

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Ehh, I don't know about that. CSV header row is more of a metadata for humans to me.
This is insane! If I remove a column, or add a new one, why should users care (that did not use said column)?