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by mannschott 579 days ago
It’s all bastard CSV out here in the real world.

For extra fun consider the German-Speaking word where CSV files are actually Semicolon-Separated but everyone still calls them CSV and looks at you like you drooled on yourself when you point out that “;” is not a “,”.

This appears to be because we use “,” as decimal separator and were too dense to learn how to use " properly in CSV.

Bastard CSVs as far as the eye can see.