Exended ASCII and code pages [was Re: for / while else doesn't make sense]

[Erik]

On 26/05/16 02:28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2016 22:03:34 +0100, Erik <python at lucidity.plus.com>
> declaimed the following:
>
>> Indeed - at that time, I was working with COBOL on an IBM S/370. On that
>> system, we used EBCDIC ASCII. That was the wierdest ASCII of all <ducks> ;)
>>
> 	It would have to be... Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code,
> as I recall, predates American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
>
> 	EBCDIC's 8-bit code is actually more closely linked to Hollerith card
> encodings.

I really didn't think it would be necessary to point this out (I thought 
the "<ducks>" and emoji would be enough), but for the record, my 
previous message was clearly a joke.

To break it down, Stephen was making the observation that people call 
all sorts of extended ASCII encodings (including proprietary things) 
"ASCII". So I took it to the extreme and called something that had 
nothing to do with ASCII a type of ASCII.

As they say, if one has to explain one's jokes then they are probably 
not funny ...

<sigh> :(

E.