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

[Larry Ebbitt]

John Bridges wrote:
> 

> 
> 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.

There is something similar now, also fugly.  It uses three characters for
every glyph and screws up spacing and readability.  THere's some offical
name for the abortion, tri-something.

When Mother screws the pooch, she does a hell of a job.

-- 
Larry Ebbitt - Linux + OS/2 - Atlanta