| Martin Cracauer via plug on 1 Nov 2021 19:16:13 -0700 |
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Rich Freeman via plug wrote on Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 10:05:28PM -0400:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 3:22 PM Martin Cracauer via plug
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > Serious question. I don't want to be all English-rulz, but
> > realistically everybody programs in English.
> >
>
> Pretty sure non-ASCII programming has been a thing for a VERY long time:
>
> FACTORIAL???{??/??????} ??? OR: FACTORIAL?????/???
>
> (Recursive implementation of factorial function in APL. Works fine in
> this non-html email thanks to unicode...)
I knew somebody would bring up APL :-)
I just have a hard time requiring more than 8 bit characters encodings
for source code. And we see a result right here.
Martin
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