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Re: Symbol for money.

#6935
From: Alt
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:57
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Ok, laugh at me....

But seriously, Euro could not be implemented there..
And if you start to laugh, listen this:

Old Woman to Hippie: -Excuse me, young girl, ..
H: - I am not a girl, indeed.
OW: - Shut up, stupid, it is not a subject to declare it such.

Same with a Euro.
How many US cents costs one Euro ???
It is less than in previous month per ... ???

Funny ? :-)

Rainer Joswig wrote:

> In article ?u5JS5.19$hD2.797@burlma1-snr2?, Barry Margolin
> ?barmar@genuity.net? wrote:
>
> ? In article ?3A1B0A62.99F065A2@card.kyiv.net?, Alt  ?alt@card.kyiv.net? wrote:
> ? ?I mean programmers languages, several scripts, configuration files...Look attach
> ? ?it's a configuration script from my Linux
> ? ?where per 2200 symbols 27 are symbols of dollar.
> ? ?And there is a lot of such files.
> ?
> ? Are you talking about the shell using dollar signs to indicate variable
> ? references?
>
> It should be possible to come up with a modified shell that
> uses the Euro character (the Euro character denotes the new
> European currency and has been introduced into character sets
> lately - � is option-shift-d on my Mac) instead. :-)
>
> This is one area where I like Common Lisp. The Common Lisp
> standard does not use the dollar sign AFAIK for any
> special purposes. So Common Lisp is a "non-imperialistic" programming
> language. Implementations may differ, though. ;-) The
> ANSI standard should be updated though to include the Euro
> character. ;-)
>
> --
> Rainer Joswig, Hamburg, Germany
> Email: mailto:joswig@corporate-world.lisp.de
> Web: http://corporate-world.lisp.de/
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Subject: Re: Symbol for money.
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