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[Wayne Throop]

- From: karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
- IMHO, the mistakes were (a) having char be an integral type in the first
- place; (b) using the bastard logical-type "unsigned char or {EOF}" for error
- handling; (c) making hardware that can easily sign-extend a byte but not
- zero-extend it; (d) invading Kuwait; (e) using a character set with only 128
- values.

But... I thought (d) was "getting involved in a land war in Asia".

Or... IS Kuwait considered to be in Asia?  I never was good at geography.
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Wayne Throop <backbone>!mcnc!rti!sheol!throopw or sheol!throopw at rti.rti.org