[phobos] The time has come to destroy all y'all over CR/LF

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> So CR alone should be available as "go to the beginning of the current 
> line". LF alone should mean "go to the beginning of the next line". 
> And that should be it. Unix got this right. CP/M et al got this wrong.
>

CP/M did not invent that meaning for LF. LF goes back decades earlier 
than CP/M.

In the early 80's, unix wasn't seen much. The best systems were the DEC 
computers, and a lot of software professionals expected DEC to become 
the dominant player. DEC operating systems were widely seen as the best. 
(IBM was still mired in their ridiculous EBCDIC encoding.)

I suspect that unix and its conventions would be dead by now if not for 
Linux.