Re: Attention: European C/C++/C#/Java Programmers-Call for Input

From: David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:04:21 +0100

Paul K. McKneely wrote:

Hi Falk,

I actually read the Arabic correctly. It was somewhere in
the reply step where it was changed. Thank you for
being polite. Boudewijn Dijkstra is wrong in his
implication that all Europeans are rude jerks.
I remember someone saying one time: "Be polite
and considerate. You never know who might end
up being your boss."

Paul

Please don't top-post - you'll wake the sleeping net-nannies.

Boudewijn did not imply that Europeans are "rude jerks" - *you* inferred it from his first reply.

You came to this newsgroup asking opinions about inventing a new character encoding to allow European programmers to use native language identifiers in a new programming language. Now you've heard those opinions - it's an amazingly stupid idea. Whoever thought of it clearly has no clue about European languages or their alphabets, no clue as to how Europeans write their code, and has apparently never thought to actually *ask* European if they would want such a "feature".

.

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