XML Considered Harmful

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2021-09-23 06:53:10 -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> The problem with csv is that a substantial chunk of the world seems to
> live inside Excel,

This is made sp much worse by Excel being exceptionally bad at reading
CSV.

Several hundred genes were recently renamed because Excel was unable to
read their names as simply strings and insisted on interpreting them as
something else (e.g. dates).

        hp

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