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From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why are @, `, and $ not used in C?
Keywords: This is a historic question
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Date: 23 Sep 89 20:55:03 GMT
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> 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. 


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Ken Johnson, AI Applications Institute, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN
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