From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/04/08
Date: 2000-04-07T22:16:55+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bt3l5zfs.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8clfc1$o71$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net
Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> Curly braces, yet. I recall reading somewhere that the reason for
> not including curly braces in Ada was due to the worldwide shortage
> of { and } created by heavy usage of the C family of languages. It
> is simply a matter of economics. Perhaps the same economics applies
> to the square brackets. :-)
I think Ada's conservative source character set is due to the fact
that the full ASCII set is not available in all parts of the world.
For example, in Germany, a national variant of ISO 646 is still widely
used[1]. On a ISO 646-DE terminal, "@[]\{}|~" is viewed as
"��������", for example.
[1] Given its limitations. I hope only very few programmers still
have to maintain source code in this character set, but it appears
that some large data processing systems still use it, and a lot of
embedded systems.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-27 0:00 Why is it Called a Package? Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-30 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Comment from the trenchs Robert Brantley
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Brantley
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Why is it Called a Package? Pascal Obry
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Paul Graham
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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