“End of story.” Why so verbose? In today’s languages and document editors you can just insert a <page break> or EOF. But I can understand why back then in doc

“End of story.” Why so verbose? In today’s languages and document editors you can just insert a <page break> or EOF. But I can understand why back then in documents they’d have to write out things like “Period. End of story.” without actual periods and control characters (for people wondering, I am parodying the article)