9 Mar
2003
9 Mar
'03
9:57 a.m.
A thing that has puzzled me almost for ever is why the
newline
character in C is 012 and not 015. Does anybody have any insight?
Well, my take on this is that C was developed with UNIX,
of course, and UNIX early on decided to use a single
character rather than a two-char (CRLF) sequence for
end-of-lines. So, since the CR was already in use for
the leading char in the two-char sequence, it made it a lot
easier to use the LF character for the single newline, so
programs wouldn't always have to be checking a second
character...
Regards,
Greg