On 2022-03-05 14:25:35 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2022 12:39:36 -0600, "Michael F. Stemper"
> <michael.stem...@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
> >... especially Pascal, which was probably bigger in Germany and Austria
> >in the 1980s than was C.
>
> Pascal also defined alternate representations (per Jensen&Wirth) for
> some of those (and I don't recall ever seeing a system that actually had an
> up-arrow character -- and selecting one in character map doesn't help, my
> client doesn't render it).
>
> direct alternate
> ? ^ or @ <no idea what is going to be shown>
> [ (.
> ] .)
> { (*
> } *)
(* *) for comments was actually pretty commonly used - maybe because it
stands out more than { }. I don't know if I've ever seen (. .) instead
of [ ].
C also has alternative rerpresentations for characters not in the common
subset of ISO-646 and EBCDIC. However, the trigraphs are extremely ugly
(e.g ??< ??> instead of { }). I have seen them used (on an IBM/390
system with an EBCDIC variant without curly braces) and it's really no
fun to read that.
hp
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