From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question now Unicode Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:55:46 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87y4mhgg65.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87sicvwckx.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87wq27yvqg.fsf@debian.uxu> <8d531e99-7260-4263-ac99-09c6871e2708@googlegroups.com> <87vbhq53lf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a8z23p23.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87lhilx0cf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twx9360u.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <0d1d19ab-06e9-462d-8867-9a49b1e232d3@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427565335 12161 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2015 17:55:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:55:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 28 18:55:26 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybux9-0006sB-Hd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:55:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54813 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybux3-0001OG-Qm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:55:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rWKmskNC+NpOZkb+AXDtOVmW1LU= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211132 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103414 Archived-At: Rusi writes: > Greek was given as an example Greek, Russian, etc. is good for "non-computer computer use", for example when you write a mail to your mother asking her to send more money because you lost them on a horse race, after which you had to pay the doctor to put your body back together. No one, not even the Greeks or Russians themselves, thinks it is a good idea to *program* using those chars and languages. Just as only novice Spaniards thinks it is a good idea to program in Spanish! >> How am I supposed to remember how to type all >> this stuff? > > You are asking a rhetorical question... Let me ask you a serious question: What advantage can be reached if one not only could remember all this stuff, but actually used it as well? Why would anyone benefit from that, and how? What problems could be solved, and what insights derived, which cannot be done so today, right now, with no fuss, with ASCII? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573