On 8/24/06, John Coady <jcoady@mac.com> wrote:
> This amazing (and arrogant) attitude displayed by the original
> developers, together with their utter lack of foresight, is the
> reason we have had (and still do have) so much trouble speaking in
> tongues on the internet.
Well, they say that hindsight is 20/20, meaning that if you had known
before what you know now, you wouldn't have done what you did before.
Besides that, remember the 8bit limitation, and unicode goes far
beyond that! It is also good to remember that computers were never
originally intended for daily use by the average person. What is
arrogant is to shove your perspective onto people who do not have your
perspective, and then condemn them for it!
Besides, the _real_ people we ought to be blaming are those dummies at
the Tower of Babel for messing everything up in the first place! ;-D
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