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From: Michael R <michael@zanyblue.com>
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Subject: Communications of ACM: Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:09:12 -0800 (PST)
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Hi Folks,

There's a note in November's Communications of the ACM titled "Sir, Please =
Step Away from the ASR-33!" with the sub-title "To move forward with progra=
mming languages we must first break free from the tyranny of ASCII".

It's interesting that Ada has already stepped away from ASCII. Many of the =
test cases for my ZanyBlue.Text localization support library contain non-AS=
CII source, e.g., a test enumeration with identifiers containing Greek char=
acters:

type Greek is (=CE=B1=CE=B2=CE=B3, =CE=B2=CE=B3=CE=B1);

Take care,
Michael.