On Tue, 16 May 2000, Tim Mooney wrote:
> >And then when the average joe
> >changes majors from history to business, a simple changing of preferences
> >makes the personal finances turn into something that resembles things that
> >he/she is learning about in accounting 101.
>
> Perhaps, depending on how much work this turns into for the developers.
> Maybe the "know thy target audience" answer will obviate the need for this
> much flexibility. It's nice to have the flexibility, but there will be a
> cost associated with it.
The cost may not be as bad as it seems. Since we already have the abstraction
for "furrin" languages, we already have most of the hooks in place to handle
alternate textual strings in the displays. The biggest hassle is likely to be
the documentation.
