Don't we do CSV/TSV anymore? It's certainly the most basic schema-less data format imaginable, and you can even have field names using the convention that the first row contains field names. It might be considered out of fashion today in our staged this-vs-that culture, but I don't see anything wrong with it. Tab-separated-values are just data fields separated by a distinguished character, with rows separated by anot…
It's complicated enough that you need a library to properly use it and simultaneously simple enough that people think they don't need a library. Then there are the billions of possible variations. Nobody can agree on a common column (is it ',' ';' or '\t'), newline seperator, whether the first row is a header and you can only store data in the first normal form. CSV is so terrible that even excel spreadsheets are a b…
Re: Data serialization
#91Nice said :) but come on. CSV parsing is trivial.