Language design

[Nobody]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:07:09 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:

> * Python requires every programmer to know, or quickly learn, the basics
>   of Unicode: to know that text is not, and never will be again,
>   synonymous with a sequence of bytes.

If only the Python developers would learn the same lesson ...

Some of them are so hooked on Unicode that they won't accept that
sometimes a sequence of bytes really is just a sequence of bytes. Primary
example: most of the POSIX API.