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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

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422 points km | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 19:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sunk1st ◴[13 Oct 24 21:43 UTC] No.41831903[source]▶
> Nobody ever wants to be in the middle of a line, then move down to the next line and continue writing in the next column from where you left off. No real-world program ever wants to do that.

Is this true?

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1. anamax ◴[13 Oct 24 22:26 UTC] No.41832247[source]▶
No, it's not true.

It was used for "graphics" on character-only terminals.