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by jandrese 2375 days ago
We don't really have this in 2019. All modern C compilers disable trigraphs by default, so you have to go out of your way to see this in person.

They only existed because really old terminals sometimes didn't have various punctuation characters used by C so they needed the ugly workaround so people trapped on those terminals wouldn't be left out in the cold.