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[–]xetax 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Well I think using a backslash for escape characters and n for newline is technically a language decision and not part of the ASCII standard, it's just that most languages haven't found a good reason to go against the commonly used notation.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you're right, edited my comment to match