From: Ben F. <ben...@be...> - 2011-10-17 22:05:14
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Paul Tremblay <pau...@gm...> writes: > You want to call space delimited files "SSV." So know what do we call > files delimited by "|" or "a"--BSV (Bar Separated Values) and ASV (A > Separated Values)? How silly do we want to be? Alan hasn't advocated any of those names, AFAICT. The existing name which covers all of those, including tab-separated and comma-separated, is DSV: Delimiter-Separated Values. > And as a linguistic exercise, what do you think of when you hear the word > "band aid?" I think “another brand name has wormed its way into the language as a generic term, and I will resist it as far as I am able” :-) -- \ “What I have to do is see, at any rate, that I do not lend | `\ myself to the wrong which I condemn.” —Henry Thoreau, _Civil | _o__) Disobedience_ | Ben Finney |