4 Jan
2012
4 Jan
'12
7:34 p.m.
> But, I've actually had students ask why there
isn't a "plus or minus", or
> a "not equal" character for use in C if() statements. So, I pass a
VT100
> keyboard around the room.
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, David Riley wrote:
Shouldn't you pass around a teletype instead?
For other courses, perhaps, although it's a little bulky, and a VT100 (or
PC) keyboard is small and light.
But the point that I try to make was to consider what was in front of the
early develpers and users of the language. What terminals were they
using?