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I think the complaints were more about how pg was originally saying that he intended to never support Unicode. That said, people should realize that UTF-8 encod
by microdan 19y ago
I think the complaints were more about how pg was originally saying that he intended to never support Unicode. That said, people should realize that UTF-8 encoding/decoding is the zeroth step to internationalization with Unicode.
- curi 19y agopg didn't say that. people just made it up.
- olavk 19y agoHe did however say: "It's not for everyone. In fact, Arc embodies just about every form of political incorrectness possible in a programming language. It doesn't have strong typing, or even type declarations; it uses overlays on hash tables instead of conventional objects; its macros are unhygienic; it doesn't distinguish between falsity and the empty list, or between form and content in web pages; it doesn't have modules or any predefined form of encapsulation except closures; it doesn't support any character sets except ascii. Such things may have their uses, but there's also a place for a language that skips them, just as there is a place in architecture for markers as well as laser printers." (http://arclanguage.com/ http://arclanguage.com/) I certainly interpreted this as ASCII-only (along with presentational markup) was an explicit design decision, and I don't think this is a far-fetched interpretation. Luckily PG has clarified (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111189 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111189) that this is not really what he meant, and now everyone is happy and has regained trust in Arc!
- curi 19y agoWhat kind of site does it make YC if this is how to get karma?
- rms 19y agothere is a very different pattern of karma for comments in "big" threads.
- curi 19y agoOn reflection: your reply is ♫♪♫ to my ears. I ♥ good points... Edit: heh, "thanks grandma" has even more than that. Edit: btw it's funny that i'm still being upmodded
- curi 19y agoso someone downmodded all of: - a simple, popular comment - a comment suggesting maybe the first one shouldn't have been upmodded so much - a comment backing off Why would you downmod all of them? If you like dislike the first comment, you should like the second, and vice versa. And if you're unhappy with me in general for the first two, you should like the third one.
- euccastro 19y ago1) How do you know the same person downmodded the three? 2) Simplest explanation for that case would be that he's downmodding the latter two as noise. You can agree to a comment and still believe it doesn't add anything to the topic in which it appears.