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Article #5967The Rationale (was: New US Rep to ISO C)
From: Liber
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1989 22:50
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1989 22:50
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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, -- _ __ NEVIN ":-)" LIBER nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (312) 979-4751 IH 4F-410 ' ) ) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, / / _ , __o ____ briefed, debriefed or numbered! My life is my own!" / (_</_\/ <__/ / <_ As far as I know, these are NOT the opinions of AT&T.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!att!ihlpb!nevin1 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 Lines: 16