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

[spir]

On 01/26/2011 08:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
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> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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.

Yop, even HP-UX was introduced only in the mid-80's: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX

>  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.

A // history of computing ;-)
(I dream a more user-friendly [instead of sysadmin-friendly] filesystem 
hierarchy had won the game.)

Denis
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