Re: Reneging on promises (Internationalization)

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 1991 23:34

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In article <keld.665177880@dkuugin> keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes:
>... other proposals have been made
>for ISO/ANSI C, because some people (including myself) do not
>find the trigraphs very useful (they are unreadable, IMHO).

As various people have pointed out, they are not meant to be readable.
They are intended as an interchange format, not for routine human use.
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Reneging on promises (Internationalization)
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