Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:58:54AM +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-08-19 23:17, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 
> >Yeah, in this day and age, not having native Unicode support is
> >simply unacceptable. The world has simply moved past the era of ASCII
> >(and the associated gratuitously incompatible locale encodings).
> >Neither is the lack of built-in strings (*cough*C++*cough*).
> 
> Oh, what I wish that was true. We're still struggling with encoding
> problems at work due to browsers and third party services and tools
> not being able to handle Unicode.
[...]

Well, I was referring to languages and systems invented today. Obviously
there is still a large amount of legacy code that can't handle Unicode
yet, but any new language or new system invented today has no excuse to
not support Unicode.


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