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- Subject: Re: UTF-8 identifiers
- From: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@...>
- Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:18:35 +0700
Twas brillig at 18:12:51 05.10.2009 UTC+01 when dot@dotat.at did gyre
and gimble:
TF> I have heard that programmers perfer to use English because their
TF> native language is highly inflected, so (for example) Russian
TF> identifiers and keywords would be painfully illiterate because of
TF> the lack of parts of speech.
One widely used accounting system in Russia uses Cyrillic-based
scripting language. There are tons of code written in this language, all
grammatically incorrect. Nobody cares.
Shareability of the code is much more important.
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http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/
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- References:
- Lua t-shirts, Stuart P.Bentley
- Re: Lua t-shirts, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: Lua t-shirts, Patrick Donnelly
- Re: Lua t-shirts, Phoenix Sol
- Re: Lua t-shirts, Stefan
- Re: Lua t-shirts, Peter Cawley
- Re: Lua t-shirts, steve donovan
- Re: Lua t-shirts, David Given
- UTF-8 identifiers [was: Re: Lua t-shirts], Ico
- Re: UTF-8 identifiers [was: Re: Lua t-shirts], Mauro Iazzi
- Re: UTF-8 identifiers [was: Re: Lua t-shirts], Jerome Vuarand
- Re: UTF-8 identifiers [was: Re: Lua t-shirts], Tony Finch
