Re: [PLUG] trojan, ransomware

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 03:22:10PM -0400, Martin Cracauer via plug wrote:
> Do we really need unicode in source code?
> 
> Serious question.  I don't want to be all English-rulz, but
> realistically everybody programs in English.

That ship has sailed a long time ago. Java's supported unicode since
it was created in the mid-90s. Raku (the language formerly known as
Perl 6) supports unicode operators.

> Also, do Emacs or VIM support unicode control characters in regular
> source code buffers? I think the article talks about compilers which
> can use 32 bit characters in source code (in literal strings and in
> comments).  I don't want that in the first place.

So you think that not only should all programs be written in English,
but all the comments and string literals should be as well?

Walt

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