On 2018-12-17 21:17, dave porter wrote:
Speaking as a long-time programmer on VMS, RMS VAR-CR wasn't half-bad for
programs that expected to be doing line-oriented I/O. As long as you were
programming within some sort of "conventional" paradigm, all was fairly
rosy. Well, as long as you abhorred abominations like Fortran carriage
control.
It got very confusing when we admitted that there were other operating
systems and there were programming languages that were not called
MACRO or BLISS.
Works fine in most languages. But it of course, it depends on what you
want to do. Some things are easier, and some things gets harder.
And even Unix gave up on the idea of having everything appear as a
stream of bytes in some situations. It became horribly obvious it was a
bad idea for tapes, and noone ever uses the stream of bytes capability
for tapes, even though Unix can...
Johnny
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