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

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (5 children)

; is also used by LISP.

And there's REM in BASIC.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 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.)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Fortran uses ! or C in the appropriate column.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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

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