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. Lines: 8 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.)