On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Colin Paul Adams <co...@colina.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tobin <korp...@korpios.com> writes: > > Tom> readability. The ASCII characters are universal and easily > Tom> recognized > > No they are not. > My wife is Chinese. When she was learning pinyin as a child, she asked > her father for help with some homework. He replied that he didn't > understand them.
I should have said "The ASCII characters are universal and easily recognized *for programmers*." Of course someone who hasn't come in contact with the Latin alphabet, let alone programming, isn't going to recognize ASCII — but I think we'd have an amazingly hard time finding a programmer who wasn't familiar with it, regardless of their native language. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
