Timeline for What is the historical origin of lone CR as a line terminator?
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| Jul 29 at 16:23 | comment | added | dave | Well, that's another point in its favour, then. | |
| Jul 29 at 16:19 | comment | added | Leo B. |
@dave True, but using CR as a line terminator is a poor choice because, for example, it does not allow drawing animated progress indicators like -<cr>\<cr>|<cr>/<cr>-<cr>....
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| Jul 29 at 15:48 | comment | added | Leo B. |
@DavidTonhofer Source? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representation mentions Oberon among the CR camp.
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| Jul 29 at 14:14 | comment | added | David Tonhofer |
"Niklaus Wirth, the author of the Oberon system". This may be too much. That would be "the team around Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht", including the team at ETHZ to build the Ceres hardware (a pretty cool little box). I have worked with the system but never noticed that its line termination convention was CR. I possibly vaguely remember that it was indeed CR+LF. Source?
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| Jul 28 at 15:20 | comment | added | dave | Having written code on systems that stored two characters, I say one character is a superior choice, since it saves nit-picking programmers (guilty as charged) from angst about the semantics of seeing just one of the pair! | |
| Jul 28 at 12:51 | comment | added | John Dallman | I suspect, but cannot prove, that the early Apple machines were trying to save space, so used a single character, and used CR as simply what came from the ENTER key. | |
| Jul 28 at 10:28 | comment | added | Raffzahn | Except that Oberon was developed way later than the common use of CR started, Apple 1 & II already used CR before Jobs visited PARC not to mention that Jobs was no engineer involved in any low level development. | |
| Jul 28 at 5:25 | comment | added | Leo B. | @SimonKissane You're right. The Wikipedia table has an omission. Please see the updated answer. | |
| Jul 28 at 5:24 | history | edited | Leo B. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
found a better source
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| Jul 28 at 4:15 | comment | added | Simon Kissane | It seems unlikely that the MIT Lisp Machine would have historically influenced its adoption by Apple II, Commodore 64, etc | |
| Jul 28 at 0:05 | history | answered | Leo B. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |