The Rationale (was: New US Rep to ISO C)

[Liber]

In article <10143 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at 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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