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It was a very reasonable design when most programs were local-only.
by layer8 2y ago
It was a very reasonable design when most programs were local-only.
- account42 2y agoIt really wasn't. Even local-only programs need to process data that isn't formatted in the user's locale.
- kazinator 2y agothread-local locale you can easily save and restore would work. In other words, dynamically scoped. But you don't want to be processing data in locale dependent-ways using the crap available in ISO C.