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Re: ^ considered mysterious

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From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1991 12:25
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Also sprach David A Keldsen (dak@sq.sq.com):
>Other troublesome operators in Algol 60 include multiplication (who has
>that big elementary-school X available?)

Anyone with a terminal with a capability to display Latin-1
(ISO 8859/1) have this character at position 214. (Or is it
215?) I don't know if there is any Algol-60 compilers who
has taken advantage of this, though.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
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Subject: Re: ^ considered mysterious
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