Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

[Rick Johnson]

On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 9:18:14 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
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> Even India has a literacy rate of 74%, which is not far off
> the functional literacy rate in the US of 86%.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/illiteracy-rate_n_3880355.html

And your source is the HuffPo? Seriously? With that in mind,
i think i'll wander on over to the TIOBE index and gawk at
the python position for a while. Gawd knows that google
searches and spam hits are the only true test for judging
the worthiness of programming language.

> The necessary encoding exists. Its called Unicode.

Great. Now let the evolutionary forces of the free market
decide if it will live or die. Why do you feel compelled to
intervene in this natural process?