En Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:00:16 -0200, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> escribió:

I didn't think your question was stupid. Stupid was (a) CP/M recording
file size as number of 128-byte sectors, forcing the use of an in-band
EOF marker for text files (b) MS continuing to regard Ctrl-Z as an EOF
decades after people stopped writing Ctrl-Z at the end of text files.

This is called "backwards compatibility" and it's a good thing :)
Consider the Atucha II nuclear plant, started in 1980, based on a design from 1965, and still unfinished. People require access to the complete design, plans, specifications, CAD drawings... decades after they were initially written. I actually do use (and maintain! -- ugh!) some DOS programs. Some people would have a hard time if they could not read their old data with new programs. Even Python has a "print" statement decades after nobody uses a teletype terminal anymore...

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