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(Message started by: IdahoEv on Feb 20^th, 2007, 6:46pm)

Title: newline conversion
Post by IdahoEv on Feb 20^th, 2007, 6:46pm

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.

Title: Re: newline conversion
Post by PMertens on Feb 21^st, 2007, 4:32pm

hehe .... unfortunately thats always the problem with not having a standard convention ...
(not only with characters ...)
But since when can humans agree on something ?

Title: Re: newline conversion
Post by IdahoEv on Feb 22^nd, 2007, 2:51am

on 02/21/07 at 16:32:58, PMertens wrote:

But since when can humans agree on something ?

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?

Title: Re: newline conversion
Post by NIC1138 on Mar 6^th, 2007, 10:39pm

Have you heard of the amusement park ride that broke due to a mistake on the project, that came from a bad conversion between the metric and the yankee-unholy standards??... :o

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/26/120247

Title: Re: newline conversion
Post by omar on May 19^th, 2007, 12:18am

NASA once lost an orbiter due to a metric-english conversion mismatch.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

Title: Re: newline conversion
Post by IdahoEv on Jun 11^th, 2007, 7:33pm

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.