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if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because...

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

photos .jxl
open domain image data .exr
videos .av1
lossless audio .flac
lossy audio .opus
subtitles srt/ass
fonts .otf
container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
documents .odt
archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
configuration files toml
typesetting typst
interchange format .ora
models .gltf / .glb
daw session files .dawproject
otdr measurement results .xml

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't forget ; is a comment in assembly.

For extra fun, did you know // wasn't standardized until C99? Comments in K&R C are all /* */. Possibly the most tedious commending format ever devised.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

; is also used by LISP.

And there's REM in BASIC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Batch files also use REM. Or ::. Each of which causes syntax errors in completely different scenarios.

M4 says it uses #, but that's an echo, and dnl is for real comments.

CSS still forces K&R style, but on reflection, that's nothing compared to HTML's ⋖!-- --> nonsense. (Edit: or Lemmy's idiotic erasure of HTML-like blocks. If they're not allowed... show them as text, fools.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fortran uses ! or C in the appropriate column.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in the appropriate column.

Alright that's just hideous.

Forth uses \, and can do block comments with ( and ), except ) is optional in interpreted mode.

Algol 60 used ¢. ¢ isn't even in ASCII, so god knows how that "your two cents" joke ever happened. How can a language this boring still exemplify how all programmers are dorks?

Visual Basic uses ' because go fuck yourself. QBASIC origins or not, I don't know how this shipped without at least one meeting where somebody got stabbed. Even the Systems Hungarian heretics should have recoiled in horror.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Algol 60 used ¢. ¢ isn’t even in ASCII,

APL uses "⍝", which isn't even in any human language and was introduced specifically so that APL can have comments.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+235D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

APL is its own special hell, on this front. A programming language you need a custom keyboard to type is like saying your favorite map projection is a globe. D-, did not read assignment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

/* */ is used in CSS as well, I think.

Also we've got VB (and probably BASIC) out there using ' because why not lol

[EDIT] I stand corrected by another comment REM is what BASIC uses. DOS batch files use that, too. They're old though, maybe we give them a pass "it's okay grampa, let's get you back to the museum" 🤣 (disclaimer: I am also old, don't worry)