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He must had a hard time figuring it out when he first encountered the problem..

• _asummers 10y ago
  Or he's written a terminal that had to figure out how to do that functionality and remembered how it worked.
  • jdmichal 10y ago
    According to the comments on TJ's post, this would be correct. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21947452/why-is-printing-b-dramatically-slower-than-printing?noredirect=1&lq=1#comment33290753_21947627 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21947452/why-is-printing-... > There are some answers that come from hard learned experience. T.J. and I (since we are friends) grew up in the days of the Apple ][ and the zx80/81. There was no built in word wrap back then. So we both ended up writing our own — more than once. And those lessons stick with you, they get burned in to your lizard brain. But if you leaned to code after that, when your environment word wraps everything, or you do it manually prior to runtime, it is harder to run into the issues with word wrap. – JockM
    • jockm 10y ago
      100% I am the guy who wrote that comment. Sometimes there are benefits to getting older ;)