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

[Rustom Mody]

On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 1:41:41 PM UTC+5:30, Erik wrote:
> On 26/05/16 02:28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 May 2016 22:03:34 +0100, Erik
> > 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 ...

JFTR I found the comment hilarious and even thought of incorporating it into
http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html
but could not find a smooth place to do so.
[Mad run: Intensive course to run next week]