Re:CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good
by JohnMakin on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @12:20PM
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I agree completely. Its simplicity is what gives it staying power.
When I was an undergrad, I had kind of an anal software engineering 101 professor who was treating the course like he was a scrum master. The deliverable was to make some dumb crud app, and a requirement was it used a "database." It was so stupid simple to write a csv to s3 or local disk that I just used that for the entire project. He tried to fail me for not following the requirements, and I had to go to the dean of CS and argue that by definition, a structured data format on a disk is absolutely a database, and I won. I got graded horribly after that though.
When I was an undergrad, I had kind of an anal software engineering 101 professor who was treating the course like he was a scrum master. The deliverable was to make some dumb crud app, and a requirement was it used a "database." It was so stupid simple to write a csv to s3 or local disk that I just used that for the entire project. He tried to fail me for not following the requirements, and I had to go to the dean of CS and argue that by definition, a structured data format on a disk is absolutely a database, and I won. I got graded horribly after that though.