Re: tlug: kanji or romaji for Japanese? (was: parallel-port IDE)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
    >> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> no, no, we want to SIMPLIFY the human - machine interface,
    Scott> not make it more complex.  a 4-byte system would definitely
    Scott> be a step in the wrong direction, IMHO.

    >> Um, Scott, it's a step in the RIGHT direction.  There would be
    >> no such thing as a `char' anymore; just `int's.

    Scott> wasteful.  Besides, if you start THIS trend, eventually I'm
    Scott> going to have to declare strings as 'long double *string'
    Scott> :) 'int *string' is bad enough..

Eh, say what?!  Think more deeply before you reply, you're wrong on
both counts....

<chortle>

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