More programs should use CSV data files, it's what' dennis ritchie would have wanted.

How do you know it's what Dennis Ritchie would have wanted?

Olderfags, I have a question

In almost everything I've been apart of, I've lost interest in it after just a few years

I'm almost out of college and am afraid I won't be able to hold a job because I get bored of it

Any experiences? I'm sure most of you are like me

>>4
Yeah that's me. Got fired from my first job cause I couldn't focus. It was a shit job anyway. In my current job I'm kind of losing it and just never feel like working. I'm started to slack hard. Best advice I can give you is that life sucks so grit your teeth through your shitty job so you can come home and masturbate to your anime with the peace of mind of having income. I have to go into work every day telling myself exactly what I have to so before I leave.

my textboard uses CSV!

Honestly, how can anyone be so shallow minded to think we are the only living civilization in the vast expanse of space? I mean what makes us soo special to be the only intelligent life form in the galaxy?

>>7
We invented XML, something no aliens could possibly have invented on their own accord. XML is a testament to humanity

Use only CSV. If you need hierarchical data, use multiple files organized hierarchically with the file system.

The most anoying thing about the whole problem is that it was solved by design in the ASCII character set.

If you use ASCII 31 as your field separator instead of comma or tab, and ASCII 30 as your record separator instead of new line. Then you have a text file format that is trivial to write out and read in, with no restrictions on the text in fields or the need to try and escape characters.

It is even part of the design of the file encoding system. The ASCII standard calls these fields

31 Unit Separator
30 Record Separator
And ASCII has two more levels with Group and File Separators

29 Group Separator
28 File Separator
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_separator and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter#ASCII_Delimited_Text

In summary ASCII Delimited Text is using the last 4 control characters (28-31) for their purpose as field and record delimiters and not using CSV (Comma Separated Values)

>>10
Unix NIH philosophy doesn't allow using any hardware or standard feature properly.

>>10
I think you mean

U+001F 'Information separator one'
U+001E 'Information separator two'
U+001D 'Information separator three'
U+001C 'Information separator four'

>>8

Yeah, our self hatred.

how the fuck do I do the | thing

>>14
It's the vertical bar, it should be on your keyboard