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CSV Is Never Just CSV

14 pointsby derverstandlast Sunday at 2:40 PM7 commentsview on HN

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barryvantoday at 11:16 AM

I appreciate a lot of the points made -- particularly that a CSV document, like any text, is a product of a partucular context and needs to be understood as such. It's a fascinating area to delve into for any product, even one as seemingly-simple as this.

But I struggled with the writing style: short, staccato sentences, each following the same simple structure, and each presented as its own paragraph. I can't help but feel it would've read better as normal prose.

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tantalortoday at 11:37 AM

The tone is just awful, borderline illegible.

st_goliathtoday at 11:33 AM

> I wasn’t particularly worried about parsing CSV files. That’s a solved problem.

> Detecting primitive types is easy. String. Number. Boolean. Date.

... the rabbit said confidently, staring down the oncoming lawn mower.

> I honestly thought the viewer would take a weekend.

> Display rows.

> Add scrolling.

Burma Shave?

LoganDarktoday at 11:13 AM

Gotta hate this writing style where every sentence is so pompous as to demand its own paragraph. This isn't that revelatory. My mind is entirely as intact and un-blown as it has been. It's okay.

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