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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 13:48:26 -0700 (PDT), Optikos <optikos@verizon.net>
declaimed the following:


>
>What seems almost shockingly peculiar to me is that France-based Green Team chose the American-oriented pro-IBM [ ] 

	Remember -- part of the requirement was for embedded systems. Yes,
there is a difference between the target and development environments
but... It was probably defined that the language itself had to be able to
be written using a minimal character set -- hence the case insensitive
nature of keywords and identifiers, and likely the lack of [] (which didn't
exist on many keyboards... In particular, look at the character set of the
IBM 029 keypunch, which was the major means of input to computers
(interactive time-share via CRTs wasn't all that common, nor was the
on-line storage for programs to be edited).

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/029.html
"""
and is missing several of ASCII's other characters: {}[]\^~
"""
	Heck, the () aren't even next to each other on that diagram, but on the
E and N keys.


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