Re: Brian Kernighan, maybe I'm not worthy, maybe I'm scum


"spinoza1111" <spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
You have told me, for example, that C is fully aware of international
strings. But when I try to re-use this code in .Net, it can't be
called directly from C Sharp using a String object, because its
interface appears in C Sharp as consisting of sbyte arrays. I fear
that there is no way of converting sbyte arrays to and from two-byte
wide character arrays without an extra loop...although there "might"
be a single Pentium instruction to do so.

The identity of char and byte, with hindsight, was a mistake.
However it has the good effect that it encourages the use of ASCII, which is the one de facto universal standard for data representation. Non-English languages can be build on top of ASCII, as has happened successfully with HTML. Non-ASCII representations certainly exist, but they risk being unreadable on some platforms, and in fact they all have weaknesses which make them undesireable as replacements for ASCII.

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