Re: Bad programs die quick; Bad data structures die hard.

2002-03-20 Thread Michael Everson
At 18:03 -0500 2002-03-19, Alain LaBontÈÝ wrote: >[Alain] Writing it in text is not a problem if context is known. >Impressionists in the XIXth Century, for example, already signed >their paintings with a format such as « Claude Monet 89 »(we know it >was 1889). I think it exceptionally bad

Re: Bad programs die quick; Bad data structures die hard.

2002-03-19 Thread Alain LaBonté 
A 21:39 2002-03-19 +, Michael Everson a écrit : >At 06:32 +0900 2002-03-20, Dan Kogai wrote: >>Y2K is a good example. It was not program's bug but that of data >>representation. > >I don't understand why people are writing '02 and the like. Were they not >paying attention? [Alain] Writing

Re: Bad programs die quick; Bad data structures die hard.

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 06:32 +0900 2002-03-20, Dan Kogai wrote: >Y2K is a good example. It was not program's bug but that of data >representation. I don't understand why people are writing '02 and the like. Were they not paying attention? -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

Bad programs die quick; Bad data structures die hard.

2002-03-19 Thread Dan Kogai
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 12:17 , Suzanne M. Topping wrote: >> As Kato pointed out, Unicode is more pro-programmers than >> pro-users. > > This is true of any character set. Users are not at all concerned with > how their script is stored. Most would prefer to never know about, hear > about,