> Because pretty much any other language has '...' for strings, or at least something to do with text.
I think you didn't use that many languages to see other forms [1]. LISP and Scheme don't have single-quoted string literals for example. Double-quoted strings are not really universal either, for example SQL uses single-quoted strings and double-quoted names.
I think you didn't use that many languages to see other forms [1]. LISP and Scheme don't have single-quoted string literals for example. Double-quoted strings are not really universal either, for example SQL uses single-quoted strings and double-quoted names.
[1] https://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.ht...