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:::I thought about that, but realized that CSV has broader existing support in spreadsheet tools and the like. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 14:40, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
::::Excel reads tab-delimited data. IIRC, give it a .TXT file with TSVs and it parses them into columns automagically. --[[User:Axtens|Axtens]] 14:50, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
The oal of the task description is to communicate to human programmers, not programs. CSV/TSV are textual, which is good; but they don't convey as much information as the explicit depiction of the ranges that we have now. Yes it may be harder to cut-n-paste values into the source for your program, but that use is secondary. When all the examples are completed, you want a task desccription that reads well. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 11:26, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
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