Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Jun 2005 12:26 UTC
For Linux users, HLA is a strong programming tool that allows them to create powerful programs on a variety of different levels. As HLA becomes more feature-rich, additional applications will be written using HLA under Linux. With HLA and Linux, programmers can develop new and exciting applications anyone can use. Read more.
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The *nice* thing about the fact that HLA does *not* use C's escape character sequence syntax is that it is much easier to create such strings to pass on to other (C) programs and functions that *do* want to see these escape sequences.
I think arguing this is "nice" is quite far fetched.
That is, if you really want to pass the string "hello worldn" to some other code, including the backslash and the n (without them being converted to a newline), then HLA's string syntax is far cleaner.
Can you also give a compelling reason why most people and in most cases want to do stuff like this? Unless in situations like writing a C parser, there is actually no good reason for this, especially in mixed programming environment. The escape sequences in C are immediately translated by the compiler into their ASCII representation (and not by run time hooks in the I/O library), and you must have users with C-escape interpreting eyes if you see a point to pass strings with literal C escapes to e.g. printf.
I have the feeling that you are simply trying to defend some not really helpful ideosyncracies.