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This argument feels like 'legacy for legacy's sake'.

• gozo 11y ago
  Frankly I think discussions like these show how not all programmers are engineers. Cutting down on complexity and ambiguity is a good thing. Because even if you can handle something, when you have teams of 100+ people with 100 000+ lines of codes, all those potentials for errors quickly adds up.
• legulere 11y ago
  Which is actually quite common. Unicode is ASCII compatible and on Windows you still have to do carriage return before a line feed, although there are no teleprinters involved.