eppstein@garfield.columbia.edu (David Eppstein) (08/22/87)
Jerry Schwarz quotes from a draft of the Rationale of the proposed ANSI C standard, section 4.4: > > The English language uses 26 letters derived from the > Latin alphabet. The set of letters suffices for English, > Swahili, and Hawaiian; all other living languages use > either the Latin aphabet plus other characters, or other > non Latin aphabets or syllabaries. Maori (similar to Hawaiian but a living language in its own right) also uses unaccented Latin. No doubt other examples exist. A little exaggeration is not in itself a bad thing, but in a standard? -- David Eppstein, eppstein@cs.columbia.edu, Columbia U. Computer Science Dept.