the.com/csv
The lingua franca of data — too dumb to break, too useful to die.
means A plain text file where each line is a row and commas separate the values, readable by basically everything.
from Comma-Separated Values dates to early 1970s mainframes; IBM's Fortran compiler used it before personal computers existed, making it one of computing's oldest survivors.
Comma chaosNames with commas break it constantly; quotes patch the wound.
No standardOfficially specified only in 2005, decades after birth.
Excel's frenemyOpens everywhere, mangles leading zeros everywhere too.