Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?
| From: | Alain Williams | Date: | Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:55:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants? | ||
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:48:06PM +0100, Tony Marston wrote:
> "Rowan Collins" wrote in message
> news:7394E3CE-B05A-474E-8AB5-A651FDD35232@gmail.com...
> >
> >On 14 September 2017 13:59:20 BST, Tony Marston
> ><TonyMarston@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>Why should the
> >>English-speaking world be forced to suffer just because some minor
> >>languages
> >>cannot handle case folding?
> >
> >Have you any idea how arrogant this sounds? Why should "the
> >English-speaking world" get to make up the rules? What criteria
> >make something "a minor language"? Who gave you the right to make
> >such lofty pronouncements?
>
> Because the English-speaking world invented both computers and the
> languages used to program them.
The light bulb was invented by an English man (Joseph Swan), the television by a
Scott (John Logie Baird); so should the Brits and Scots be the ones that define
light bulb and TV standards to suit their convenience ?
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