@inthehands@hachyderm.io @jrose@social.belkadan.com @lindsey@recurse.social @regehr@mastodon.social Unsurprisingly this originated with C: it has in general been common (traditional, even) for C/C++ compilers, starting from the originals in Bell Labs, to define '\n' *only* by what C compiler code generators emitted, originally defined by bootstrapping.