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Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator [message #75382 is a reply to message #75372]

Wed, 02 March 2011 11:09

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Paulo Penteado wrote:
> On Mar 2, 2:20 pm, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
>> Who in the world thinks up these bizarre data formats!?
>
> I always wondered that. People deliberately trying to make things bad?
>
> Maybe it is a psychology experiment, to measure how much suffering
> others will put up with.

I reckon it's due to three things:
- a general human tendency to (want to) assume symmetry (if it's easy to write the format then it *must* be easy to
read, right?)
- the lack of appreciation for the importance of tacit knowledge (the "works-for-me!" syndrome :o)
- people are time-crunched (writing generic software is, generally, not a quickly accomplished task).

Or it's a psychology experiment.

Whichev.

:o)

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		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: noahh.schwartz on Fri, 04 March 2011 06:16
		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: Mark Piper on Thu, 03 March 2011 08:03
		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 02 March 2011 11:09
		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: penteado on Wed, 02 March 2011 10:27
		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: wlandsman on Wed, 02 March 2011 10:19
		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: Carsten Lechte on Wed, 02 March 2011 10:12
		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 02 March 2011 09:50
		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 March 2011 09:41
		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 02 March 2011 09:30
		Re: Read ASCII File with tab seperator By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 March 2011 09:20

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