Re: Image attachments to ASCII RFCs (was: Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats))

[Peter Dambier <peter at peter-dambier.de>]

Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> > From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch at muada.com] 
>
>
> > When I was 16 years old, I wrote a text editor in BASIC that 
> > would probably have allowed me to edit RFCs. 
>
>
> I wrote a text editor in Basic for the ZxSpectrum that was published commercially when I was 15.
>
> I guess I could use it to edit RFCs as well if I could find a ZxSpectrum that still worked to read the program off the cassette tape.
>
>
> My computing needs have grown somewhat since then. 

You are not programming in APL, are you?

That is the only programming language I know, that does not use either ASCII or EBCDIC.

The modern, not so algorithmic languages like lisp or prolog do rely on ASCII or EBCDIC.
They cannot use wordstar or word documents. I tried it only once in old MSDOS times :)


Cheers
Peter

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