On Sun, 08 Mar 2020 15:28:06 +0000, mm0fmf wrote:

> Java: another Dodo language like COBOL.
>
Not even slightly.

COBOL is gone and not much missed, but Java is dicing with C as the most
used language at present.

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> XLAT was added to the original 8086 instruction set by Intel at IBM's
> request specifically for speeding up conversions to and from EBCDIC.
> Load DS:BX with the table address, element index in to AL and XLAT loads
> AL with the byte at DS:BX + AL.
>
> I wrote some 8086 code that specifically used it in maybe 1985 ISTR.
> Never used it again and was surprised to see it has made it's way into
> the 64bit instruction set.
>
I wonder if that's specifically to deal with sorting digits before/after
letters. Somebody must want that or it wouldn't persist - I wonder if its
some age old Library convention.

If so, that would explain its position in the EBCDIC collation sequence..


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