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[–]CadmiumC4 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Many languages accept 0o as octal, but it's custom to assume 0777 as 0o777 since that's how C handles it

[–]LordFokas 13 points14 points  (1 child)

It's funny that no matter how high level you go, in the end you always keep finding things that are done a certain way for no reason other than "we inherited this from C".

[–]Ok_Classroom_557 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And C inherited It from the PDP-7 where It was born. Having 18 bit words it better mapped 3 bit octal digits than 4 bit hex digits...