Algol W [was: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC]

[Hugh Pyle]

The fancy arrows in Fira Code are ligatures.  (Yuk!  I'm not yet a convert)
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWithLigatures.aspx


ASCII-63 had a backward-arrow that disappeared in later revisions of the
standard, replaced with underscore (and also an upward-arrow which was at
the codepoint now used for the caret).  But the PDP1 arrow wasn't ASCII.  I
believe it's the FIO-DEC encoding, and used an IBM typewriter console,
https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_decpdp1F17_28841238/F17_PDP1Maint_1962#page/n123/mode/2up




On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:01 AM ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On 5/27/2020 8:43 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
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> >> At the moment I have no wish to fight a web site,to find what should be
> >> simple information.
> >
> > It's a picture. They can be useful.
>
> That is why clicking with my mouse did nothing.
> I like if eif else fi  for if statements.
> What keyboard are you using to get the fancy arrows?
> Ben.
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