On 11/05/15 17:09, PystCat wrote:
I have a friend who gets very annoyed that "the Americans always control things." When I ask for
clarification of this I get, "Well... For instance, why does the States have to be 001 in the
international dialing....? Answer me THAT..!" The answer... "We invented the telephone. If you
want to control something, invent it." That shut him up.
If you want a language to be controlled in whatever language you want... Invent
one.
But, oddly enough, computers were invented in England, and the USA
hijacked them.
The only comfort I get is that the USA invented Rockabilly, but the
Welsh and the Germans hijacked that and improved it.
Pace "Crazy Cavan" and the "Lennerockers".
Richmond.
On May 11, 2015, at 9:30 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/11/2015 03:40 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> wrote:
As a case in point, I just opened up revNavigator from the plugins menu -
and it works in 7. Indeed, if I have objects with Unicode names,
revNavigator still works perfectly, displaying precisely what you would
expect. There was no need for me to modify the code, nor do anything to the
stack.
Ha, way to hit me where I live :-) Are developers really naming objects
with unicode-only names? Why? It's not like "repeat" or "filter" are
localized, so how much of a benefit is it really that variable names and
object names can be in cyrillic?
Well, it may be that your work goes a lot more smoothly if you can give your
variables and objects names that are relatively easy to remember because they
are
in your native language.
I don't know what you call your variables and objects, but I always give them
names
that make sense to me and have some sort of connexion to their function: flds
such
as "OOT", "DOONBY", "BIGGIN", "BYRE" mak a heil puckle o sense tae ma mind mair
than Sudron yins, as well as aa those that aiblins hae nummers: yin, twa,
three, fower,
fife, sax, se'en, nichan, teen. Now, sud I wark fae a stoor mon that has
Bulgarian fae his leid
he mun find it mense fu gif I caa them names he kens: КОТИКА, ТОРБИЧКА, ОБОР.
The unconscious arrogance of the English-speaking world never ceases to amaze
me.
It might not be a bad idea to meditate on the fact that an awful lot of people
conduct
their daily lives using non-latinate writing systems.
Richmond.
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