Re:Problems with CSVs
by lisivka on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @10:46PM
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Yep, we have bunch of incompatible formats and tons of legacy documents and systems, but I'm 100% sure that me is not a person to blame for that.
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Well, I'm saying the attitude of "be liberal in what you accept" is to blame for the fact that malformed documents are being emitted in the first place. A huge number of people will just hack away at something until it works rather than implementing their emitters to spec, so accepting malformed documents is training people to emit malformed documents.
That is unrelated to well-formed documents in incompatible formats, though.