pipe symbol wierdness [was Re: Streams, pipes, redirection tutorial]

[John Bridges]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:27:53 -0400, Larry Ebbitt wrote:

>Think of the poor guys who use C or C++ on the OS/390 mainframe.  3270
>doesn't support [ or ].

I remember many years ago an alternate syntax for C which didn't need full
ASCII, could work with uppercase+symbols (like on machines with 6bit bytes). 
Something like

MAIN(INT ARGC,CHAR **ARGV)
(*
	IF(WHATEVER)
	(*
	*)
*)

Pretty fugly.