In article <cb2aff1b-c091-48b5-90f5-d82c6060b...@googlegroups.com>, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, August 25, 2014 5:36:25 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > > Rustom Mody wrote: > > > > Heh! You make it sound that the character model is the most important > > > thing > > > in choosing a language! > > > There are people using Fortran -- with not intention of finding > > > an alternative. > > > Different people have different needs. If I was writing code to do > > number crunching, > > Precisely: > - Compiled language + fast compilation > - Static binaries -- better (in the sense of more lo-level) than C's default > - Static strongly typed + type-inference > - Interfaces instead of inheritance > - And of course "I want a google-job" > > and probably many others can be the deciders for many people > > > ... I wouldn't care much if I could only print 7-bit ascii. > > If I was writing code to serve music on the web and had to > > display artist names like M?tley Cr?e and Beyonc?, I would be more > > concerned about the character model. > > Funny!! > Your mail client seems to be 7-bit ASCII!! Well, not my mail client. My NNTP client. I'm running a hideously outdated client (MT-Newswatcher) because I love the U/I. Unfortunately, it's pretty braindead in the unicode department. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list