From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 13:30:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87v8aynbbz.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <837cngs9fo.fsf@gnu.org> <878r7wnkzu.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1665"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:IyV+teTFoXGT7zsuvnIsuHu98xY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 28 12:36:29 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qwgg9-0000Dk-DI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:36:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qwgdv-0006j5-Sm; Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1quWfW-0004fv-Jy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2023 07:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1quWfT-0005DP-B4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2023 07:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1quWfP-000AZY-26 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2023 13:30:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:34:09 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145395 Archived-At: 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