Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Feb 21 17:43:55 CST 2015


On 02/21/2015 03:22 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> Ah well, time for me to get back to coding for my ternary-based machine
>> that uses Murray code as its character set.
>
> Will you include optional conversion for morse code for the console I/O?
> (dot/dash/space)
>
> ANSI C will be incompatible with it, but a K&R C might be possible.

Well, that's an idea, but *American Morse* telegrapher's code from the 
19th century.  You know, where "O" was dit-pause-dit and "L" was 
long-dah, etc.

That should confuse just about everybody.

--Chuck



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