Sorry to be confusing. I hadn't meant to imply that the split between
text and binary files were somehow the fault of any programming
languages, just the split between "write" and "writeln". Equally bad
ideas with different origins. Though I continue to believe that Python
should default to open
Bill Hanssen writes:
> I think the "-ln"
> variants made familiar by Pascal and Java were a bad idea, on a par
> with the notion of a split between "text" and "binary" file opens.
It's a bit off topic, but it wasn't the languages that introduced the
difference between "text" and "binary" files. Pa
