How to waste computer memory?

[cl at isbd.net]

Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2016-03-17, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:31 AM,  <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >> Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In the event that i change my mind about Unicode, and/or for
> >>> the sake of others, who may want to know, please provide a
> >>> list of languages that *YOU* think handle Unicode better than
> >>> Python, starting with the best first. Thanks.
> >>>
> >> How about a list of languages that Unicode handles better than ASCII?
> >> Like almost every language *except* English.
> >
> > Like every language *including* English. You can pretend that ASCII is
> > enough, but you do lose some information.
> 
> And I suppose you youngsters really think you need both upper and
> lower case and all those fancy curly braces, pipes, backslashes
> asterisks, and semi-colons and whatnot.  [Yes, I've written software
> that had to deal with baudot because that's all the paper tape reader
> could handle.]
> 
I'm hardly a youngster, I'm nearly 70 and started programming in the
early 1970s.  :-)

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Chris Green
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