On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:41:14 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I'm not the one who says "I hate EBCDIC"; I certainly like EBCDIC better than >ASCII. > Why? Is it largely 8-bit vs. 7-bit? Would it be fairer to compare (any of) the EBCDIC code pages to (any of) ISO-8859-x? In either case there's code point instability.
Unicode? But which representation of Unicode? UTF-8 seems to be the modal choice. >As for Perl, my primary use of it is on OS/2, nd it did things that would have >been awkward with REXX. OTOH, I wish that the regex syntax were moe like >SNOBOL. > Depends. An interactive editor should be keystroke-economical (ISPF isn't.) Its scripted companion should be referentially transparent (vi isn't.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
