Gabriel Genellina wrote:
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 :)
But it does not have to be the default or only behavior to be available.
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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