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Retiring CSV is as futile as retiring Unix pipes. It's a text format for text manipulations, and there is nothing simpler and more ubiquitous than a new-line and comma delimited table. Simplicity and flexibility has its drawbacks, but the advantages clearly outweigh those drawbacks. So, it will never retire, as long as we use text and blob filesystems that don't have interoperable structured metadata, across the board.


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