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Comment Re:Article author didn't read spec (Score 1) 728

by kongtomorrow on Sunday October 31, 2010 @10:16PM (#34084906) Attached to: Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall!

I also wonder if Poul-Henning Kamp is aware that Rob Pike is the co-inventor of UTF-8...

Comment Article author didn't read spec (Score 2, Informative) 728

by kongtomorrow on Sunday October 31, 2010 @10:14PM (#34084886) Attached to: Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall!

Mr. Pike _did_ tear down the wall. The author didn't read the spec for Pike's language. From the article:

Unicode has the entire gamut of Greek letters, mathematical and technical symbols, brackets, brockets, sprockets, and weird and wonderful glyphs such as "Dentistry symbol light down and horizontal with wave" (0x23c7). Why do we still have to name variables OmegaZero when our computers now know how to render 0x03a9+0x2080 properly?

The go spec is defined in terms of unicode, and specifically gives non-ascii characters as example identifiers. Go source code is defined to be UTF-8.

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