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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Survival of Fortran
Message-ID: <136@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 12:01:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 11 12:01:57 1984
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>I were designing a language that was intended to be a major
>industry wide language I would, as a matter of course, make
>sure that the character set were compatible both with EBCDIC
>and ASCII and that programs in that language could be entered
>either on a 327x IBM terminal and a vt100.

If I remember Grady Booch's book on Ada correctly, DOD designed Ada
to use a subset of ASCII that would be available on virtually any
terminal owned by an employee of the Defense Dept.  I'm not familiar
with the details, but he said you could use more extended character
sets if you had them...wonder how you port your program if you do?
-- 

Bill Kelly
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