On 2017-12-02 11:02, Walter Bright wrote:
Are you sure about that? I know that Asian languages will be longer in UTF-8. But how much data that programs handle is in those languages? The language of business, science, programming, aviation, and engineering is english.
Not necessarily. I've seen code in non-English languages, i.e. when the identifiers are non-English. But of course, most programming languages will using English for keywords and built-in functions.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
