# from David Golden
# on Tuesday 05 January 2010 15:00:
>> There's nothing wrong with tsv files.
>
>There's nothing wrong with punched cards and slide rules, either.
...except for complexity, lack of speed, accuracy, etc.
If you want to emit a table of information which is known to have no
embedded tabs, a tsv file with headers is fast and easy to produce and
consume without special software on either end.
Given the constraint of bootstrap-ability, it seems like you should
answer "Why not tsv?" before reaching for anything more complicated.
--Eric
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