On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Ed Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Ze'ev: > Because in most cases programmers are less than lets say bright. If you > bring up ASCII you will only confuse them. I suspect they will try and use > it in some sort of horrendous fashion, like convert to ASCII and then back. > To give you an idea how stupid programmers can be a S0C7 turns into a tech > support issue as the system said it was a 0C7 so it is a systems issue. > Thats how bad some programmers are. > Gee, Ed, do you know Walter? I got just that argument from him back in the 1970s. "System abend" -> "System problem". We were converting from DOS to VS1. He had the same problem, data exception, in the DOS version. Which printed the message: JOB TERMINATED DUE TO PROGRAM REQUEST (as I recall). He brought the source code to the DOS sysprog and yell at him: "Just show me the code that asked for my job to be terminated!" > > Ed > > In today's mainframe world, most programmers, at least in the U.S., think CP037 is the only EBCDIC code page. Unless they use z/OS UNIX, then IBM-1047 becomes the "one true" EBCDIC. And many think that Windows ASCII (CP-1252) is the only "real" ASCII encoding. Luckily, at least on the ASCII front, more programmers seem to be starting to know about UTF-8. <plug>Especially Linux programmers </plug> -- If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
