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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: VDE and other useless 7 bit JUNK
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Date: 26 Jul 89 05:32:06 GMT
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In article <464@helps.cactus.org> jhoward@helps.cactus.org (James Howard) writes:
>In article <1064@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>>Warning - flame on.
>>...
>>I soon found out that the program was COMPLETELY USELESS, not only to me, but
>>also to most other Europeans. The reason is that it does not allow the usage
>>of eight bit characters.

WARNING: tongue in cheek.

Only WIMPY languages need eight-bit characters. Real languages like
Japanese need fourteen at least, preferably sixteen or more. I can't
remember what VDE was, but I'm sure I passed it by because it couldn't
hack any of the languages I need for my work: Chinese, Korean, and
Japanese (in increasing order of importance). :)

Warning: tongue out of cheek.

(If you don't think Japanese is important, look at (a) the size of the
Tokyo stock market compared with with any n European markets; or (b)
the size of the top n Japanese banks compared with the top n
European (or American) banks.  Look at the size of the n largest chip
makers in Japan versus the n largest chip makers in Europe.)

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