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Re: Symbol for money.

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From: Alt
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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From: Alt <alt@card.kyiv.net>
Subject: Re: Symbol for money.
Date: 2000/11/21
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