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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: The Rationale (was: New US Rep to ISO C)
Message-ID: <10369@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 89 22:50:53 GMT
References: <4623@freja.diku.dk> <12.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> <10143@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <10143@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>I disagree
>with some of the Rationale (namely the part that implies that we expect
>people to actually code using trigraphs), but basically it's on the mark.

Some things could have been worded better.  Is it really unfortunate
that the ASCII repertoire is not a subset of all other commonly used
character sets?   Without it, we might still be stuck with EBCDIC!

It's been a looong week,
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