On Jun 29, 5:24 pm, Dominic Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Robert Casto <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Seriously, why do we have to use ASCII text files anyway? > > You're right. Why do we have to use ASCII? This is the 21st century — we > can use UTF-8! Now, instead of space vs tab, you can debate: space vs tab > vs en space vs em space vs zero width space vs thin space vs hair space vs > zero width no-break space.
And then we should use ≤ instead of <=, ≠ instead of !=, and x ∋ s instead of s.contains(x). Without that, we can go to Rambutan and javatangle our code into Java and javaweave our code through pdfTeX into PDF! Of course, may G-d help us debug code like that in an IDE. Respectfully, Eric Jablow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
