Doubled newlines

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday 31 July 2010 20:10:05 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Oh and I'm getting the same issue in Python when using CR only. I don't
> know why I have the CR option in the text editor if it doesn't work
> properly. I guess CR is used on the Macs maybe..?

Prior to Macs becoming Unix based, they used '\r' for the end-of-line character. 
Once they became Unix based, they did what Unix does and used '\n'. So, at this 
point, you really only have to worry about '\n' vs '\r\n' with Windows being the 
only odd man out.

The funny thing is that _technically_ speaking, Windows is right: a newline 
drops down a line, and carriage return goes to the beginning of a line, so both 
are necessary. But since we don't use typewriters anymore or use consoles in 
that way, combing them into one character like C did is better, and that's what 
most everything does. So, while Wnidows is arguably more correct, it causes 
problems and is arguably inferior.

- Jonathan M Davis