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simple string backspace question
- From: mail at microcorp.co.za (Hendrik van Rooyen)
- Subject: simple string backspace question
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:55:43 +0200
"John Machin" <sjm...con.net> wrote: > Point (2): Backspace??? YAGNI --- backspace hasn't been much use for > anything (except when typing text) since the days when in order to get > a bold letter (say X) on a character impact printer, one would > transmit X\bX\bX ... ooooooh! Ugly! Almost as bad as, on a golf ball printer: "I am a little nodding man, I always nod my head..." followed by an infinite loop of shift-in, shift-out characters. - Hendrik
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