shebang strange thing...

[Erik Max Francis]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" wrote:

> Erik Max Francis wrote:
>
> > (Mac gets even fewer points,
> > since it chose to do deliberately do smoething even more different.)
> 
> That's debatable. At least the Mac still only uses *one*
> character for each end-of-line...

At the time the Mac was created, line endings of LF (Unix) and CR LF
(CP/M, DOS) were common.  The only reason you'd choose CR is to do
something different.  Their implementation of data forks vs. resource
forks are another example of Apple doing something different simply for
its own sake, which introduce massive interplatform compatibility
problems.

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