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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!omh
- From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
- Subject: Re: Stripping Mac text for Usenet
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.033604.3755@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec10.231215.3423@kth.se> <Bz4r0C.385@iat.holonet.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:36:04 GMT
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- In article <Bz4r0C.385@iat.holonet.net> bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
- >
- [a severe skewering of UniCode]
- >
- >I don't know if this arrogant anti-Pascal language crap has been fixed but
- >I took it as a simple indicator that Unicode is a totally useless and
- >shitty hack. Imagine if ASCII (for Americans) had been accidentally
- >mangled by a rushed implementation all these years (an ommision of the
- >semicolon for example). You can see how important a standard needs to be
- >evaluated and examined.
- >
-
- You're pretty rough on blasting the whole system on this one indicator. I
- don't regard the UniCode implementation to be rushed (they've been having
- at it for a couple of years, I believe), but I do know that it's badly
- needed. If we wait until every i is dotted and t is crossed then we'll
- really have pandemonium. The typeface people are already assigning glyphs
- hither and yon and some sort of order is badly needed. The UniCode people
- had a long time where they were looking for comments from potential users -
- it may not be too late to bring up your concerns to them now, rather than
- wailing away at its imperfections to us programmers who must implement
- it regardless of its flaws through sheer necessity.
-
- -Owen
-
-
- Owen Hartnett omh@cs.brown.edu
- "FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks
- without knowledge, of things without parallel."
- -Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
-