"Data files should contain data."

For those tech-types who do their own data munging, here’s a rant from Mark Dominus, a Perl programming wizard who was briefly stymied by trying to process a large data file from Census. As we face these issues daily in my office, I thought I’d share the frustration!

Of course, he doesn’t mention where he thinks metadata “should” go but I have a pretty good idea what he would suggest…. ;-)