On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 11:45:25PM +0000, max haughton via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] > I think that mental model is pretty good actually. Maybe a more > specific idea exists, but this virtual machine concept does actually > explain to the new programmer to expect dragons - or at least that the > days of plain ASCII are long gone (and never happened, e.g. backspace > as you say)
In some Unix terminals, backspace + '_' causes a character to be underlined. So it's really a mini VM, not just pure data. So yeah, the good ole ASCII days never happened. :-D T -- This sentence is false.
