From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 8 9:30:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D1537B4C5 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:30:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 226755730D; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:30:42 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:30:42 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <20001108113041.B74554@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:11:32PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:11:32PM +0000, Terry Lambert scribbled: | The basis of the joke required people to complete an _English_ | phrase in their mind to make the association. I maintain that | the joke is anglocentric. Almost all of FreeBSD is Anglocentric, since the early codebase was written mostly by Americans. Otherwise, we would not have the basesystem binaries stripping 8th-bit's and programmers thinking that ASCII is the only charset one ever needs. That said, I wonder why K&R/Stroustrup made the function names so hard for non-English speakers to pronounce. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message