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Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com

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RS Wood wrote:
> Koen wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:26:56 -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
>>
>>> RS Wood<rsw@therandymon.com>  writes:
>>>>   http://iaindunning.com/2014/julia-unicode.html
>>>> I'm not a programmer but even I think this is neat.
>>>
>>> It's fun to write code that is difficult to type and may not display or
>>> print?
>>> Not on any project I have a say in.
>>
>> I agree. It is not because something can be done that it should be done.
>> If anything, the example code becomes more difficult to read.
>> Also the problems at the bottom of the article: the micro symbol and the
>> small Greek letter mu look the same (µ) but they are different
>> characters.
>> Not in my code.
>
> And that, folks, is apparently why I'm not a programmer.  :)  Never
> occurred to me, but what you're saying makes sense.

But what they are saying is only part of the story.  If the customer 
wants to read the output of a program in his native language, why 
shouldn't he?

The beauty of ASCII is that one can write English in it.  And the beauty 
of English is that it is the language that, first the Brits, and then 
the Americans spread around the world.  But that is just an historical 
accident.  It is not all that long ago that the lingua franca of the 
well educated was Latin: scholars from all over Europe could communicate 
with one another even though their mother tongues differed considerably. 
  So English has replaced Latin; who's to say that Mandarin, e.g., won't 
replace English someday?

-- 
Madam Life's a piece in bloom,
Death goes dogging everywhere:
She's the tenant of the room,
He's the ruffian on the stair.

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Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 19:29 +0000
  Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-02-23 15:26 -0500
    Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Koen <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 21:11 +0000
      Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 08:55 +0000
        Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-02-26 12:48 +0000
          Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 18:25 +0100
      Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> - 2014-02-26 12:15 +0000
        Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-03 17:10 +0100
      Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-26 15:27 +0200

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