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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Hex string literals (was Re: C23 thoughts and opinions)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:57:59 +0100
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On 19/06/2024 11:44, Michael S wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:17:45 -0000 (UTC)
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Computing is Amerian, basically. Almost any big co. you can think of,
>> current or historic, was or is American. IBM, DEC, Sun Microsystems,
>> Microsoft, Google, Apple, ...
>>
> 
> Arguably, today's most influential CPU company is British, even if two
> of the 3 founders were American and current owner is from Japan.
> Today's most important silicon manufacturer, the one that keeps the
> progress crawling forward instead of standing still, is Taiwanese.
> And the company which made most of research that allowed to this
> manufacturer to make progress is based in Netherlands.
> 
> 

And the language which seems dominant in North America, and within 
programming languages, and the basis for ASCII, is English.

Which came from England, I guess!