On 2018-02-09, at 07:17:05, Robin Vowels wrote: > From: "Paul Gilmartin" > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 2:54 PM > >> Too much sarcasm. It's analogous to the ASCII-EBCDIC confrontation. I >> prefer >> ASCII, but EBCDIC, with no intrinsic superiority, ... > > It was superior for 80-column punch card input and output, > and for the tabulators that were used to print the input cards and > output cards containing the results. > I carefully chose the phrase "intrinsic superiority". That reason is more extrinsic than intrinsic. (I know; it's all relative.)
-- gil
