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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Survival of Fortran
Message-ID: <2913@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 16:44:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 11 16:44:12 1984
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The point about FORTRAN's character-set conservatism is well-taken.  DEC
users probably do not know that braces ({}) are not a standard part of
EBCDIC, unless they are refugees from IBM or Burroughs systems.