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From: throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: binary, ascii, translation
Summary: Vizini vs the Man in Black
Message-ID: <0948@sheol.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 90 21:01:29 GMT
References: <18033@haddock.ima.isc.com>
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- From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
- IMHO, the mistakes were (a) having char be an integral type in the first
- place; (b) using the bastard logical-type "unsigned char or {EOF}" for error
- handling; (c) making hardware that can easily sign-extend a byte but not
- zero-extend it; (d) invading Kuwait; (e) using a character set with only 128
- values.

But... I thought (d) was "getting involved in a land war in Asia".

Or... IS Kuwait considered to be in Asia?  I never was good at geography.
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Wayne Throop <backbone>!mcnc!rti!sheol!throopw or sheol!throopw@rti.rti.org