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- From: MCMASTER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Jim McMaster)
- Subject: Re: Lower-case alphabetic set
- Message-ID: <16B4E7FA7.MCMASTER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com>
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- References: <johnv.040n@acix.DIALix.oz.au> <1993Jan5.055753.19116@stortek.com> <1751@airgun.wg.waii.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:04:36 GMT
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- In article <1751@airgun.wg.waii.com>
- denham@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Scott Denham X7117) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan5.055753.19116@stortek.com> pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
- >(text deleted)
- >>... The Rexx
- >>standard does not guarantee that XRANGE('A','Z') contains only alphabetic
- >>characters; nor even that it contains the same number of characters as
- >>XRANGE('a','z'); nor that the two don't overlap. I regularly use a
- >>dialect of Rexx for which not all these assumptions are true.
- >
- >Ain't EBCDIC a thing of beauty???
-
- Yes, it is a pip. It was derived from the old Hollerith punched-card
- code. When IBM was designing its system, it tried to remain backward
- compatible with its older ones. By the time ASCII came along, it was
- too late for IBM to change.
-
- Don't be too proud of ASCII, either. It was originally designed as a
- 7-bit code, and we now have a plethora of incompatible 8-bit
- extensions.
-
- Jim McMaster
-