Docstrings considered too complicated

[David Robinow]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2010-03-03, mk <mrkafk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> That has always puzzled me to. ETX and EOT were well established, why
>>> no use one of them? I'd love to know what they were thinking.
>>
>> Probably nothing: what many people do with confronted with a problem.
>>
>> It reminds me of why Windows uses backslashes for path separation
>> instead of slashes: what I've *heard*, and do not know if it's true,
>> it's because Gates fancied using / for options switch instead of -,
>> and to hell with established practice.
>
> Using / for the option switch _was_ the established practice (if you
> came from a DEC background the way that CP/M and DOS did).
Quite true. And the early DEC systems predated Unix (although not by much)