Its shit if you don't routinely speak or write English. On those grounds, I'll decry it as not only shit but purposely shit. OK a bit over the top ... the des

Its shit if you don't routinely speak or write English. On those grounds, I'll decry it as not only shit but purposely shit. OK a bit over the top ... the designers of EBCSDIC had a rather tight set of constraints to deal with, none of which included: "be inclusive". Again, if I really had to be charitable (I looked after a System/36, back in the day), the hardware was rather shit too, sorry ... constrained. Yes constrained. Why should six inch fans fire up reliably after a few years of use and not need a poke after an IPL? No real dust snags and I carefully sprayed some WD40 on the one that I could get at. I have modern Dells and HPs in horrid environments that do better with shitty plastic fans. EBCDIC is not elegant at all unless excluding non English characters in an encoding system is your idea of elegant. According to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC it expended loads of effort with dealing with control eg: "SM/SW" instead of language. ASCII and EBCDIC and that basically say: fuck you foreigners! We now have hardware that is apparently capable of messianic feats. Let's do the entirety of humanity some justice and really do something elegant. It won't involve EBCDIC.