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Article #6922Re: Symbol for money.
From: Alt
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:00
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Barry Margolin wrote: > In article ?3A171D19.4C770E2E@card.kyiv.net?, Alt ?alt@card.kyiv.net? wrote: > ?I am not a designer, or will be better to say "not quite designer". > ?I have an interest to several programmers languages. > ?And you know I do not like that almost all of such languages > ?has a american national attribute, it's a symbol of dollar. > > What are you talking about? Most programming languages don't make any > special mention of money, so they don't require use of the American dollar > sign character. Dollar signs usually appear in character strings that the > programmers create, not anything built into the language. These days, if > you want to make your program international, there are libraries for doing > this, and they include support for monetary symbols. > Libraries ?Look, the compilers does not have to make any localisation. As simpler syntax is as better. Because in compilation is a lot of other tasks which requaire performance. Languages widely use symboll of dollar. It does not mean money there but, any way, it has such meaning. > Can you give examples of what you're trying to fix? > To fix ? > -- > Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net > Genuity, Burlington, MA > *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. > Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
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