On 1/11/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, ASCII is old, and there's a strong sentiment that anything old
must be replaced, but it *worked*.

There's also a common strong traditionalist sentiment that anything
old is good, usually accompanied by "Arr, it worked just fine back
then, why shouldn't it now?"

Everyone can talk to everyone else.

That's like saying everybody *could* speak English, so we should make
English the mandatory default.  Worse, it's not even English
necessarily but Basic English. [1]

-todd

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English


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