From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:32:33 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:   
      
   > XML old skool!!!!!?????   
      
   I think it was down to its verbosity and syntactic clutter compared to   
   something a bit more concise, like JSON.   
      
   > Bloody 'ell, does that make me pre-historic in prefering csv text files   
   > :-)   
      
   CSV is popular because of its simplicity (once you get past some annoying   
   little dialectic variations). I even added SYLK export in a project once,   
   though I suspect nobody else remembers what that is any more ... (DIF,   
   anybody?)   
      
   There are other ancient formats that remain popular because they are so   
   simple to both generate and parse. E.g. with all the advances in 3D   
   graphics technology over the past few decades, good old OBJ remains in   
   common use as a basic format for transferring large amounts of geometry   
   between different apps.   
      
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