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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Change the software or the alphabet?
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 16:30:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 16:30:17 1987
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In article <1446@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
 >                                          The alphabet is the servant of Man,
 > not the other way around; thus it is appropriate to suggest that it should
 > evolve to meet Man's changing needs.

 > If it is painful to adapt the software to handle the peculiarities of certain
 > languages/alphabets (I have in mind Chinese, Japanese, and to a lesser extent
 > the accented letters of some European languages, and to some extent English),
 > then it is reasonable to consider the possibility that the language/alphabet
 > should change instead of the software.  I am not saying that the former *must*
 > be the one to change, only that it should be considered.  I recognize that
 > there's a lot of inertia to overcome, but might not the benefits be worth it?

Oh yes, pi is about 3.1103.
I do not understand you ask?
Well it is clear, we use base 8.
Oh, you ask, why not base 16?
Mm, are our computers using different alphabets?
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