On Monday, August 25, 2014 5:36:25 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Heh! You make it sound that the character model is the most important thing > > in choosing a language! > > There are people using Fortran -- with not intention of finding > > an alternative. > Different people have different needs. If I was writing code to do > number crunching, Precisely: - Compiled language + fast compilation - Static binaries -- better (in the sense of more lo-level) than C's default - Static strongly typed + type-inference - Interfaces instead of inheritance - And of course "I want a google-job" and probably many others can be the deciders for many people > ... I wouldn't care much if I could only print 7-bit ascii. > If I was writing code to serve music on the web and had to > display artist names like M�tley Cr�e and Beyonc�, I would be more > concerned about the character model. Funny!! Your mail client seems to be 7-bit ASCII!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
