colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (11/03/85)
> In article <527@talcott.UUCP> tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes: > >What do you mean? Most UN*X utilities are programming utilities, > >and nobody is going to program in Chinese characters. And the demands of > >Chinese and Japanese word processing are so utterly different that > >a completely new kind of user interface and a completely new set of > >utilities is needed anyhow (sort, grep, &c don't really make sense with > >Kanji or are extremely tricky to do. And how do you propose does the > >shell deal with Kanji? And should file names be allowed to have Chinese > >characters in them???). > > It seems to me that this is just the problem. Look at our Big Automobile > companies. A few years ago with the fabricated oil shortages the > JAPANESE were the only ones to see the value in small cars. Now they > have a good percentage of OUR (the U.S.) market. Look at the stereo > market, the TV, VCR, CAMERA, ETC.... There are more JAPANESE and > CHINESE then all those who natively speak English. > This attitude will continue the ORIENTAL invasion of our markets. Is there really any demand for a _programming language_ that uses Chinese or Japanese characters? If there is, you had better wait for somebody to invent it and see what it looks like. And I'll bet it never catches on in the west. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva