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From: artm@phred.UUCP (Disaster Master)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Compatibility with EBCDIC
Message-ID: <1675@phred.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 09:47:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 09:47:47 1987
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In article <8915@brl-adm.ARPA> crowl@cs.rochester.EDU (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>In article <997@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>>I think that for too long language designers have tried to accomodate the
>>vagaries of EBCDIC, specifically, that it's a character set with holes.
>
>I think that for too long language designers have tried to accomodate the
>vagarities of ASCII.  It has 'Z' < 'a' of all things!  Not only that,
>'A' <= z && z <= 'z' allows non-letter characters.  The ISO Latin-n standard
>places various modified letters above delete!  Clearly kludgy.
>
Wait a minute.... by "full of holes" are we referring to the code itself,
or its original medium?

Rahul, you're such a card :-)
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