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oh man, this reminds me when I was working for a startup and we integrated with another company. I was sitting down with their CTO and asked about the data format. He told me we will get a file a day and it is CSV, which was totally fine by me. So they SCPed the first file and I had a look and everything was in XML.
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Did it happen to be the cheapest offer?
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Wouldn't surprise me. Everyone in management wants front-row tickets for a dime, and money talks loudly.
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Luckily, they're not using SGML ...