Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Thursday 17 March 2016 17:37:02 alister wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:42:30 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:31 AM, <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > >> Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@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. > > > > > > ChrisA > > > > as we all seam to have bitten the troll's thread > > "how to waste computer memory" > > give it to an delusion-ed incompetent to play with > > > > it is now 2016 not 1978, Memory is cheap. plentifully and fast there > > is more than enough to go arround > > > While you all are trying to play can you top this, I just have to comment > that in 1978 I paid $400 for a kit to put 4k of static ram in a Cosmac > Super Elf. And the code I wrote for it, looking up in the RCA > programmers manual to get the hex value I then entered via the onboard > monitor facility with its 6 digit led display, was still running in 1995 > at that tv station. > > So the obvious question then is, will any of your python code still be > running and doing its labor saving and dead on the video frame timing > job several times daily, 17 years hence? > I wrote a Cosmac assembler for the Cosmac. :-)
However I doubt it's still being used, a year or two after I wrote it we migrated to a Tektronix development system that ran Unix (wow!). -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list