Comment on The history of curly bracesparentComments−kps13ySome of the design decisions of ASCII are covered in the original standard (first link) and in the other references here:American Standard Code for Information Interchange http://www.wps.com/projects/codes/X3.4-1963/index.htmlRevised U.S.A. Standard Code for Information Interchange http://www.wps.com/J/codes/Revised-ASCII/index.html Eric Fischer, The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968 http://www.pobox.com/~enf/ascii/ascii.pdfTom Jennings, An annotated history of some character codes or ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Infiltration http://www.wps.com/J/codes/R W Bemer, The 1960 Survey of Coded Character Sets: The Reasons for ASCII, http://www.trailing-edge.com/~bobbemer/SURVEY.HTMR W Bemer, Design of an improved transmission/data processing code http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/366532.366538 Charles E. MacKenzie, Coded Character Sets: History and Development 978-0201144604
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Some of the design decisions of ASCII are covered in the original standard (first link) and in the other references here:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange http://www.wps.com/projects/codes/X3.4-1963/index.html
Revised U.S.A. Standard Code for Information Interchange http://www.wps.com/J/codes/Revised-ASCII/index.html
Eric Fischer, The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968 http://www.pobox.com/~enf/ascii/ascii.pdf
Tom Jennings, An annotated history of some character codes or ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Infiltration http://www.wps.com/J/codes/
R W Bemer, The 1960 Survey of Coded Character Sets: The Reasons for ASCII, http://www.trailing-edge.com/~bobbemer/SURVEY.HTM
R W Bemer, Design of an improved transmission/data processing code http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/366532.366538
Charles E. MacKenzie, Coded Character Sets: History and Development 978-0201144604