Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 07:00 PM 9/21/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:13:41PM +0200, Marco Pantaleoni wrote:
> > Is it still so ? I'm not Spanish, but I seem to recall that in 1994, the
> > "Real Academia Espanola" has decided that the "ch" and "ll" groups are
> > not to be considered anymore single letters. So I guess that the sort
> > order now should be the same as in English.
>
>They did - but only because it was easier than modifying all the computer
>programs...

Really? People changed the way their language works because of *computers*? 
If that's not a sign that something's profoundly wrong I don't know what is...

                                        Dan

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