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Because we spent a lot of time optimizing every assumption for the ascii-only case, and letting go of that simplification is distressing, I guess.
by ben0x539 11y ago
Because we spent a lot of time optimizing every assumption for the ascii-only case, and letting go of that simplification is distressing, I guess.
- steveklabnik 11y agoYes. And many languages had ASCII-only stuff for a long time, so "real" APIs seem much, much more complex. Of course, that complexity was always there, but us English speakers could mostly just ignore it...