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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Survival of Fortran
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 21:29:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 24 21:29:17 1984
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>Ever wondered why Ada used parentheses for array subscripts
>instead of square brackets?  Ever had to take an IBM terminal
>into APL mode just to beat a square bracket out of it?
>
>By the way, as far as I remember, the square brackets ARE part
>of EBCDIC character set...

Well, there are plenty of terminals around in IBMland that don't have
brackets.  However, it's also true that there are square brackets in
EBCDIC.  In fact, you'll find that they show up in TWO places each, due to
some bizarrity with printer codes.  That makes it distinctly unpleasant,
since some software will recognize both "allowable" codes, some only one,
some only the other.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.