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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Stop adding types, Let's remove Trigraphs instead!!
Message-ID: <5854@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 12:36:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 12:36:24 1987
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In article <879@eneevax.UUCP> chuck@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Chuck Harris) writes:
>For those of you who entered late, ANSI decided that we all of us
>who have modern terminals wouldn't mind "Escaping" all of our question marks
>so "c" can be used on model 33 teletypes (You know kerchunk..kerchunk...).

If you don't know what you're talking about, you should shut up --
that way you leave people merely wondering if you're a fool rather
than removing all doubt.

I don't happen to like trigraphs either, but at least I know
what problem they were intended to solve.