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My 0.02$: For something as deeply embedded and controversial as CSV this won’t work. I say this because I’ve been watching the battle since the 1990s. CSV has a lot of problems, but it is only an issue if you try to make it do too much. For a current example look at JSON. The original BNR grammar fit on the back of a business card. It has major issues too. Yet it hasn’t successfully been replaced or augmented without creating even worse problems, like compatibility. Putting lipstick on a pig, like this suggestion for CSV, just creates incompatibility and even more headaches.



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