The Elegance of the ASCII Table
If you’ve been a programmer or programming-adjacent nerd1
for a while, you’ll have doubtless come across an ASCII table.
An ASCII table is useful. But did you know it’s also beautiful and elegant.
Even non-programmer-adjacent nerds may have a cultural awareness of ASCII thanks to books and
films like The Martian2.
ASCII‘s still very-much around; even if you’re transmitting modern Unicode3 the
most-popular encoding format UTF-8 is specifically-designed to be backwards-compatible with ASCII! If
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