Cherie Meyer

waiting it out

“When the early computers came out, some designers realized that using two characters for end-of-line wasted storage (at the time, storage was very expensive). Some picked , some . Some of the diehards stayed with the two-character sequence. Unix uses for end-of-line. The newline character, \n, is code 0x0A (LF or ). MS-DOS/Windows uses the two characters: . Apple uses .” Above is an excerpt from Steve Oualline’s Practical C Programming wherein Oualline poignantly describes how today’s frameworks began to diverge after the transition from the Teletype (a machine that printed messages delivered over a phone line) to a computer with a terminal, or screen. I highly recommend Oualline’s guide for any reader that is interested, but has a limited knowledge of computers and/or the C language. I purchased it for the first programming class I took [and dropped two weeks in]. ./oopsies