From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Programming for the World in Ada95
Date: 2000/02/14
Date: 2000-02-14T18:35:13+00:00 [thread overview]
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It would seem strange to me to see this as a language problem... :-) Human
langugae yes, but programming language?
You can create constant message strings that can be replaced during
compile time, load messages from a file, so you can control it without
recomiplation and so on.
Naturally you would want to abstract these details awy using packages etc.
- so that the code using the messages will not be dependent on the
language.
It is of course important to realize that the messages themselves are one
of the easy parts. Input (in langyages that are right to left for example,
like Hebrew) is an issue, character set (unicode, anyone?), collating
sequence and so on.
Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-14 0:00 Programming for the World in Ada95 John J Cupak Jr
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm [this message]
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
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