RE: Wasteful internationalization

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:

> [I'm trying to use the Ada-France comp.lang.ada scheme, as I'm using a new
> Internet provider without a news server (or at least they won't tell me
> where one is. So I've missed a couple of days messages, hopefully I'm not
> repeating stuff.]

Well, apparently the backward references get lost somewhere along the way,
making navigation among the threads rather difficult. :-(

> Björn Persson writes (mostly responding to me):
> 
>> I thought the discussion point was whether it's OK to occasionally
>> include
> a
>> non-ASCII character in an otherwise English-language Usenet post.
> 
> I hope you're kidding. That side discussion erupted over examples of the
> readability of Ada sources.

That was the topic briefly before Larry complained about my not sticking to
ASCII – in a Usenet post, not in Ada code. Even earlier the topic was
internationalization, as the title of each post still suggests. Before that
the title was "Structured exception information", and in the direct
ancestors of this branch the discussion was about whether there is any need
for structured exception information. The topic always changes in a long
discussion.

And now the discussion has deteriorated into a meta-discussion about what
the topic of the discussion was, so I'm stopping here.

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