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To be fair, I'd rather type BEGIN instead of <<? Or whatever the trigraph is supposed to be. We tend to forget that a lot of computers didn't have the keys to t
by lor_louis 2y ago
To be fair, I'd rather type BEGIN instead of <<? Or whatever the trigraph is supposed to be. We tend to forget that a lot of computers didn't have the keys to type "mathematical" symbols.
- WalterBright 2y agoEBCDIC was already dead in the 1980s. Nobody ever used the trigraphs except for one company that hung on for years until even the C++ community decided enough was enough and dumped them. Besides, what people wrote was: #define BEGIN { not: #define BEGIN <<?