It makes perfect sense when you consider text files. When line ends, next line obviously starts from column zero. CR is the only wrong choice. There's never a

It makes perfect sense when you consider text files. When line ends, next line obviously starts from column zero. CR is the only wrong choice. There's never a reason to go to start of line without erasing the line or moving to next line in a file. And even user interfaces will have smarter ways to do that. It's a completely useless concept outside of typewriters. Well, CRLF (or worse, LFCR) is also obviously a wrong choice because it's pointless to demand two characters and create problems when one of them is missing when one totally unambiguous character will do.