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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 13:30:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8aynbbz.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: IaEOw2FIPJGbrUvHsbmWIBdjKuVNA2yP0vw4uPPz6FfLpNQNrJs9W2PRxLX7ZQhRLaZ0JDwIP6dLsgiVNHPFOnyZoynwSV-hdu6wSefUx20=@protonmail.com

Heime wrote:

>> But in computer-computer technology and programming not so
>> much so IMO. I'm sure modern programming languages that are
>> designed and implemented today can support them, but what
>> is the gain, really? Maybe I'm just old-school.
>
> It is not old-school. It is western-school, because some
> writing systems it is customary to introduce ideograms
> representing concepts or ideas rather than a specific word
> in a language. Examples include Cuneiform, Egyptian and
> Anatolian Hieroglyphs, Mayan, Chinese Scripts, Japanese, the
> list is not short.

The computer revolution - the transistor and later the PC -
are all western things. In particular they are American
things. And what made them possible - the industrial
revolution - is a western thing as well, in particular an
English thing. Pretending to program in another language in
2023 won't change that.

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-22 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-20 22:53 UTF-8 characters in comments of a program Heime
2023-10-21  7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 10:48   ` Heime
2023-10-21 11:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 11:36       ` Heime
2023-10-21 11:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 11:51           ` Heime
2023-10-23 15:39             ` Leo Butler
2023-10-21 15:54       ` Basile Starynkevitch
2023-10-21 13:19   ` Jonathon McKitrick via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-10-21 13:49     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-22 11:04       ` Heime
2023-10-22 11:30         ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2023-10-22 13:44       ` Eric S Fraga
2023-10-23  5:51         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-21 10:25 ` Emanuel Berg

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