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> The best thing about using only ASCII for the main syntax is that everyone can type it with their keyboard.

My keyboard doesn't have a key for NUL, BEL, VT, EOT. What kind of keyboard do you have which has buttons for these?



Let's not be so pedantic. I meant visible ASCII symbols, character codes 32-126 plus newline.


With vim at least, you can type them in as control-key sequences (preceded by Ctrl-V).


But then the statement is incorrect. I can write all of Unicode using keyboard sequences as well.

People from US seems to have a strong fetishes with ASCII.


ASCII is an abbreviation for American Standard Code for Information Interchange after all.




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