Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why are @, `, and $ not used in C?
Message-ID: <11147@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Sep 89 04:39:10 GMT
References: <509.nlhp3@oracle.nl> <19211@gatech.edu> <3068@ur-cc.UUCP> <1596@l.cc.purdue.edu> <408@illusion.UUCP> <928@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <928@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.UUCP (Ken Johnson) writes:
-> Why are @, `, and $ not used in C?
-I understand that 3 free Ascii codes were left so as to allow C to be
-ported into a language with a 29-letter alphabet.  Which one I can't
-imagine. 

Me neither.  How do these stories get started?  (It's nowhere near
the first of April.)