[comp.std.c] The Rationale

nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber) (04/29/89)

In article <10143@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>I disagree
>with some of the Rationale (namely the part that implies that we expect
>people to actually code using trigraphs), but basically it's on the mark.

Some things could have been worded better.  Is it really unfortunate
that the ASCII repertoire is not a subset of all other commonly used
character sets?   Without it, we might still be stuck with EBCDIC!

It's been a looong week,
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