On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:48:04 GMT, Martin Buchholz <mar...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Perhaps @Martin-Buchholz could chime in and also tell us which book he found >> his ASCII trick in :) > > "oldest trick in the book" is a phrase that does not necessarily imply > existence of an actual book! > > Let this evoke an image of a **personal** book of tricks that programmers in > the 1960s might have recorded such techniques in. And the tricks were passed > down across generations of programmers! More to the point, ASCII was obviously **designed** to allow you to uppercase a lower case letter with a single instruction, so "the book" might have been a draft standard before they scrubbed out the interesting history! ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12632
