Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:30:42 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <20001108113041.B74554@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:11:32PM %2B0000 References: <xzpk8aevk5i.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com>
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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
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