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Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:09AM (#37532938)
A lot of developers talk smack about CSV files (or tab delimited) but they really are the workhorse of our industry. They're simple, textual, compress really well, and as long as everyone on both sides has an agreement about the format, they're almost a standard.

sure, a lot of the criticisms of CSV are true, but given the above constraints it's really hard to beat them.

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Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by sambazi on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:48AM (#37533109)
"everything is a file" still going strong
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Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by notagoodidea on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:20AM (#37534181)
And they can be open in Excel for the best and the worst.
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