Re: [DIS] project21 make money
From Arthur T. Murray <uj7...@victoria.tc.ca>
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· 21 Feb 2003 06:45 · View full thread
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"Dennis Ritchie" <dm...@bell-labs.com> wrote on Fri, 21 Feb 2003: > "eric fischer" <eri...@ellibrocorto.com> wrote > a long message about the development of ASCII, > for which he's due thanks. It began > >> Whether ASCII or ISO 646 came first depends upon the perspective >> you're looking at it from ... > > He concluded, > >> I don't know what could really have been done to make it any >> better, though. 94 printing characters just aren't enough to >> give everybody everything they want, so in a set of that size, >> any characters outside the core few that everyone agrees are >> needed either can't be included at all or have to be assigned >> with the knowledge that they won't be available everywhere. The ASCII escape sequences were invented by Bob Bemer of Texas, http://www.bobbemer.com/ -- Bob Bemer's Homepage; see also Robert William Bemer -- "Father of ASCII" bio at http://www.thocp.net/biographies/bemer_bob.htm > > As he and I noted, the basic problem is the pigeon-hole > principle for 7-bit characters. Despite ISO 10646 and earlier > partial solutions like the Latin-x encodings (for various x), > as well as HTML escape sequences, it's still a difficult > area. > > Dennis Arthur -- http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/theory5.html -- AI4U Theory of Mind; http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/jsaimind.html -- Tutorial "Mind-1.1" http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mind4th.html -- Mind.Forth Robot AI; http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595259227/ -- book "AI4U"
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