Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java claims WORA Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:37:25 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <8bc88bdc-bd63-4dd2-ba6c-cb0a7622fa1f@googlegroups.com> <40o4u71gpg9lmptbffe2k5e6da6ggcdo8a@4ax.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15479 On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:43:21 -0700, Roedy Green wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >The caveats are: for a more detailed answer see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/wora.html -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com If you look in a computer programmer's freezer you will find all kinds of containers, but none of them labeled. They do the same thing creating files without labeling the encoding. You are just supposed to know. Ditto with the MIME type, the separator and comment delimiters and column names in CSV files. Ditto with the endian convention. Imagine how much more civilised life would have been if Martha Stewart were the first programmer.