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IdahoEv
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newline conversion
« on: Feb 20th, 2007, 6:46pm » |
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Thinking aloud: how many programmer-hours would have been saved if, back in 1975 or so, all the computer manufacturers and OS programmers had agreed on a standard convention for newline characters?
grumble. debugging CRLF idiocy wasting half my afternoon. grumble.
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Re: newline conversion
« Reply #1 on: Feb 21st, 2007, 4:32pm » |
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hehe .... unfortunately thats always the problem with not having a standard convention ...
(not only with characters ...)
But since when can humans agree on something ?
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Re: newline conversion
« Reply #2 on: Feb 22nd, 2007, 2:51am » |
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on Feb 21st, 2007, 4:32pm, PMertens wrote:| But since when can humans agree on something ? |
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Oh, there are standards. Plenty of them.
Not that my beloved nation, the USA, ever bothers to conform to the standards of the rest of the world. No, we always just have to have our own standards that are incompatible with everyone else.
Grumble grumble. GO METRIC! Grumble.
Am I off-topic yet?
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Re: newline conversion
« Reply #5 on: Jun 11th, 2007, 7:33pm » |
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I was working at JPL at the time that loss happened. Even seen several hundred engineers learn that their labor of love of the last five years was just lost because an external contractor didn't specify their units? People were not happy.
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