Hollerith and why we have digraphs in Pascal and trigraphs in C/C++ (nostalgia, Apple

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Hollerith and why we have digraphs in Pascal and trigraphs in C/C++ (nostalgia, Apple

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Hollerith and why we have digraphs in Pascal and trigraphs in C/C++ (nostalgia, Apple

4. Jul 2012, 14:50

Some nostalgia (: In the mid 80s, when programming in UCSD Pascal and Turbo Pascal, I learned that Pascal has (. and .) digraphs*that translate into [ and ],*similar to the (* and *) digraphs that*translate to { and }. In fact I thought the English word was bigraph (as bi- is a prefix for twice, ...