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Subject: Re: Strings (was : Fair comparison C vs HLASM)
On 2018-02-09, at 15:05:19, Seym
On 2018-02-09, at 15:05:19, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Pretty much any EBCDIC code page is superior to ASCII. As to what to call
> 8-bit code pages, I'd suggest using the term" 8-bit code page" and reserving
> the term "ASCII" for ASCII. Especially if you find yourself having to
> transfer data am
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Subject: Re: Strings (was : Fair comparison C vs HLASM)
On 2018-02-09, at 1
On 2018-02-09, at 13:32:29, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> I would argue that EBCDIC is intrinsically superior to ASCII. I would also
> argue that it is not intrinsically superior to, e.g., ISO-8859-15.
>
Let's not compare an apple to an orange grove. I know you insist on precision;
that ASCII is a 7
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Subject: Re: Strings (was : Fair comparison C vs HLASM)
On 2018-02-08, at 20:39:07, Tony Thigpen wrote:
> Let me see if I can sum up the con
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Subject: Re: Strings (was : Fair comparison C vs HLASM)
> On Feb 9, 2018, at 7:46 AM, Robin Vowels wrote:
> From: "Paul Raulerson"
> Sent
On 2018-02-09, at 07:17:05, Robin Vowels wrote:
> From: "Paul Gilmartin"
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 2:54 PM
>
>> Too much sarcasm. It's analogous to the ASCII-EBCDIC confrontation. I
>> prefer
>> ASCII, but EBCDIC, with no intrinsic superiority, ...
>
> It was superior for 80-column pu
> On Feb 9, 2018, at 7:46 AM, Robin Vowels wrote:
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> From: "Paul Raulerson"
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>
>
>>> On Feb 8, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Robin Vowels wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Paul Raulerson"
>>> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 9:46 AM
>>
Because they don’t have any speci
From: "Paul Gilmartin" <0014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 2:54 PM
Too much sarcasm. It's analogous to the ASCII-EBCDIC confrontation. I prefer
ASCII, but EBCDIC, with no intrinsic superiority,
It was superior for 80-column punch card input and
From: "Paul Raulerson"
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 1:03 PM
On Feb 8, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Robin Vowels wrote:
From: "Paul Raulerson"
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 9:46 AM
Because they don’t have any special knowledge of strings,
The only "special knowledge" of strings that is req
On 2018-02-08, at 20:39:07, Tony Thigpen wrote:
> Let me see if I can sum up the conversation:
>
> There is this high and mighty language call C++ to which all other languages
> must strive to emulate, and,
> any other language that does not handle strings the exact same way as C (and
> variant
Let me see if I can sum up the conversation:
There is this high and mighty language call C++ to which all other
languages must strive to emulate, and,
any other language that does not handle strings the exact same way as C
(and variants) are sub-standard.
And, to prove the point, the fact tha
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> On Feb 8, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Robin Vowels wrote:
>
> From: "Paul Raulerson"
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 9:46 AM
>
>
>> Because they don’t have any special knowledge of strings,
>
> The only "special knowledge" of strings that is required is that
> a string is compose
From: "Paul Raulerson"
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 9:46 AM
Because they don’t have any special knowledge of strings,
The only "special knowledge" of strings that is required is that
a string is composed of bytes.
only untyped data. And the lengths of the data they operate on
is fixed a
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