Bad programs die quick; Bad data structures die hard.

2002-03-19 Thread Dan Kogai
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 12:17 , Suzanne M. Topping wrote: As Kato pointed out, Unicode is more pro-programmers than pro-users. This is true of any character set. Users are not at all concerned with how their script is stored. Most would prefer to never know about, hear about, or

Re: Bad programs die quick; Bad data structures die hard.

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 06:32 +0900 2002-03-20, Dan Kogai wrote: Y2K is a good example. It was not program's bug but that of data representation. I don't understand why people are writing '02 and the like. Were they not paying attention? -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

Re: Bad programs die quick; Bad data structures die hard.

2002-03-19 Thread Alain LaBonté 
A 21:39 2002-03-19 +, Michael Everson a écrit : At 06:32 +0900 2002-03-20, Dan Kogai wrote: Y2K is a good example. It was not program's bug but that of data representation. I don't understand why people are writing '02 and the like. Were they not paying attention? [Alain] Writing it in