On 2022-03-05 14:25:35 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2022 12:39:36 -0600, "Michael F. Stemper" > <[email protected]> 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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