On Sun, 08 Mar 2020 13:57:47 +0000, mm0fmf wrote:

> On 08/03/2020 13:03, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> so I found its collation sequence rather nasty - and still do.
>
> You need to learn 8086 assembler then. Instruction set support for
> EBCDICASCII.
>
Nah, just need to implement a suitable Java Comparable class any time I
get sufficiently pissed off with the way TreeMap insists on using a
default collation sequence that puts digits behind alphabetic characters.
Or do something similar in C.

I've written code using other assemblers: PLAN, 6800, 6809 and 68000, but
as I haven't used any of them in the last 20 years, I've yet to find a
reason for learning any others. OK, I might make an exception for PIC
assembler if I can't do what I need with PICAXE BASIC.


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