On Thu, 09 Aug 2001 at 09:04:55 +0200, Abigail wrote:
> But I guess that ~ isn't in FORTRAN 0, and perhaps " and \ aren't either.
IBM mainframes until recently still made allowances for the
"48-character set" which was presumably what was available then. Let's
see: [-A-Z0-9,./*+=()$' ]
(see http://www.osdata.com/topic/language/pli.htm)
I'm not sure about "'" in very early versions of Fortran, since
string variables would be like this, if I remember rightly:
100 FORMAT 28HJUST ANOTHER FORTRAN HACKER,
PRINT 100
No, it's not lower case because theyre *isn't* a lower case. The IBM
1130 I used a while ago had a special golfball supplied for the console
printer with *two sets of A-Z*. What twisted logic leads people to
"solutions" like that is entirely beyond me.
I don't see any way on the face of it to write *any* perl program in
this character set. No lower case, no '\\', no {}.
Consider this your challenge for the day...
Now I must get back to work, not really fun with perl. I have to
remember what IO::Socket did 2 years ago, which is when the platform I'm
using was frozen :-(
Ian
