> It competes with fopen. No, it actually competes with Excel. At least in the finance world, there are still a million small processes driven by an Excel spr

> It competes with fopen. No, it actually competes with Excel. At least in the finance world, there are still a million small processes driven by an Excel spreadsheet put together in an afternoon by an intern 20 years ago. If it is a really business critical process, then the input is usually a csv file, read by an Excel macro. Because Excel is user friendly, and "is good enough". Mostly...