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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 348

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 348. Here are my solutions to them.

1: The next real-estate catalogue went binary in 2002.

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Property list

The next (it originated in NeXTSTEP) real-estate (property) catalogue (a list) went binary in 2002 (it was available in binary format in Mac OS X 10.2 in 2002, and that’s now standard).

2: Punctuating a short pause to break data for spreadsheets and more.

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CSV

Punctuating a short pause (a comma) to break (separate) data (value) for spreadsheets and more (commonly used to move data between spreadsheets and more).

3: In a quest for a golden fleece, Douglas Crockford brought it from ECMAScript.

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JSON

In a quest for a golden fleece (the mythical Jason), Douglas Crockford (its inventor in 2000-01) brought it from ECMAScript (the official name of the standardised version of JavaScript, the origin of JSON, JavaScript Object Notation).

The common factor

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They’re all data exchange formats, specifically those used for serialisation.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.