Re: Bob needs a new catchphrase

"paul c" <toledobythesea_at_dbms.yuc> wrote in message news:Mvz1h.226612$5R2.204996_at_pd7urf3no...
> Bob Badour wrote:
> > paul c wrote:
> >
> >> BobTheDataBaseBoy wrote:
> >> ...
> >>
> >>> To quote Allen Holub (a coder): "Just say No to XML". I will add,
> >>> in all its forms.
> >>
> >> The thing is, a bunch of people were asleep at the switch when the
> >> internet's growth underlined the need for better transfer formats, so
> >> as often happens the first attempt even though inferior prevailed.
> >
> > I respectfully suggest no new transfer formats were needed in the first
> > place. To the ignorant, everything is a novel idea. Or perhaps better:
> > those who ignore history are doomed to re-invent it.
> > ...

>

Did you mean CSV? I used that format extensively back in the 90s, as a kind of "lowest common format" for data exchange between systems? It is, of course, unmanaged data, but it sure is easy. Received on Tue Oct 31 2006 - 11:50:43 CET