Docstrings considered too complicated

[Richard Brodie]

"Ed Keith" <e_d_k at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.

It goes back to ancient PDP operating systems, so may well
predate Unix, depending which exact OS was the first to use it.