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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Unicode in strings
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 08:07:50 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>On Mon, 20 May 2024 11:46:20 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:
>
>> Algol 60 does not standardize a program representation in characters (a
>> grave mistake fixed by most later programming languages ...
>
>That would likely not have been considered feasible in 1960, given the 
>wide variation in character sets between computer systems.

COBOL did it.  LISP did it.  It was feasible in 1960.  It's just that
the Algol 60 committee did not want to go there.  And the Algol 68
committee did not want to go there even though ASCII was standardized
in 1963, and Algol 68 was only finished in 1974 AFAIK.

- anton
-- 
'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>