Re: Nostalgia

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:22

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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
>On Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 7:10:43 AM UTC-7, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
>> >But you wouldn't write a C program on a card punch, as they didn't support lower-case, never mind trying to use vi from one.
>
>> C doesn't require lower case, and why do you think trigraphs were invented?
>
>Although that's a valid point, because C programs entered from terminals or on 
>other sites would contain lower case, there would still be compatibility issues.

At least on unix, if your stty settings indicated an upper-case only
terminal, the terminal driver would interpret \C as c, and render c as \C
so it was quite possible to use lower-case from an upper-case only terminal
to program in C.

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