Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 19:00:28 GMT References: <3245@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1991Jun15.124052.17827@cbfsb.att.com> <3257@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Sender: usenet@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is's message of 16 Jun 91 15:58:22 GMT In article <3257@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes: By the way, the stream of 7-bit programs from the USA gives me a poor impression of the intelligence of USA programmers. Some products are great and works fine. BUT then there are those morons that *insist* on masking that bl*ody 8th bit!! Excuse me. I had thought that, since the 8th bit was unused by USASCII, there would be no trouble using it for marking purposes, etc. Now I find that it causes trouble with non-english alphabets. Why am I a moron when I tried to make my program simpler and hence more reliable? -- --russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. I am leaving the employ of Clarkson as of June 30. Hopefully this email address will remain. If it doesn't, use nelson@gnu.ai.mit.edu.