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Subject: Re: Survival of Fortran
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Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 20:22:00 EDT
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Nf-From: hpfclo!jacob    Jul 16 16:22:00 1984


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...