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Sure, because you can fit six characters in 32 bits. But still... those constraints are no longer with us, and there's a limited amount of historical cruft peo

by tsotha 15y ago

Sure, because you can fit six characters in 32 bits. But still... those constraints are no longer with us, and there's a limited amount of historical cruft people learning a language today should have to deal with.

codehalo 15y ago
How do you fit 6 characters in 32 bits? What encoding / context? BTW, there was a Great Memory Shortage.
- tsotha 15y ago
  Something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Radix-50 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Radix-50