Re: Settling an Argument - Assembly *IS* a Language, Right?


Peter T. Daniels wrote:
André G. Isaak wrote:

[As an aside, latin and roman are used more-or-less interchangeably when
discussing font technology. From a grammatological standpoint this usage
might be less than ideal, but it is fairly common in computer circles].

Yeah. And have a look at how the Unicode glossary totally fucked up the
technical terminology _I_ introduced. (It may have been corrected in
recent months.)

You may have been able to detect, over the years, my considerable
contempt for computer engineers and the total mess they have made of
what they call "internationalization."

Well, have you raised an issue with the parties responsible for
developing and passing i18n and l10n standards? The best way to predict
the future is to invent it.

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