Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program

[Emanuel Berg]

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.

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