In article <928 at skye.ed.ac.uk> ken at aiai.UUCP (Ken Johnson) writes: -> Why are @, `, and $ not used in C? -I understand that 3 free Ascii codes were left so as to allow C to be -ported into a language with a 29-letter alphabet. Which one I can't -imagine. Me neither. How do these stories get started? (It's nowhere near the first of April.)