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Subject: Re: What is a byte
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Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 00:18:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 23 00:18:48 1987
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In article <6252@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <899@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
[stuff about assuming sizeof(char)==1]
[>> uses an example of a Japanese programmer having problems]

> If *I* were a Japanese programmer, I think I'd resent being treated
> as a second-class citizen by the programming language.

If you insist on taking a language designed in the English world for
the English world and using it in Japan, it wouldn't surprise me a bit
if it made a poor showing.

Why do we all assume that C must be twisted and bent to fit the
international environment?  Are there *no* computer languages designed
by Japanese for a Japanese environment (or Chinese or Arabic or Hindi
or etc)?  Perhaps it is time for one.

(Not that I have anything against extending C to such an environment; I
like C too.  But it's beginning to look as though the result of such
attempts "ain't C", to coin a phrase.)

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)