On 2013-07-08, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > I appreciate you've been around a long time, and worked in a > lot of languages. I've programmed professionally in at least > 35 languages since 1967. But we've come a long way from the > 6bit characters I used in 1968. At that time, we packed them > 10 characters to each word.
One of the first Python project I undertook was a program to dump the ZSCII strings from Infocom game files. They are mostly packed one character per 5 bits, with escapes to (I had to recheck the Z-machine spec) latin-1. Oh, those clever implementors: thwarting hexdumping cheaters and cramming their games onto microcomputers with one blow. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
