🚀 go-pugleaf

Philip Shearer <pbs@lmrln.demon.co.uk> writes:

>fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU "Fergus Henderson" writes:
>
>> kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763) writes:
>> 
>> >matt@godzilla.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Matt Austern) writes:
>> >
>> >|> There's nothing wrong with a C++ implementation parsing
>> >|> printf's format string at compile time, doing error checking to
>> >|> make sure that there aren't any type errors, and putting in the
>> >|> appropriate low-level calls.
[...]
>> >Or do you really think everyone in the world can read English
>> >fluently.
>> 
>> That's not relevant.  The issue is optimization, not
>> internationalization.  What is relevant is that in many C programs,
>
>If you worked in Europe then locale settings are relevent and important. [...]

Read the above quote from Matt Austern again.
What he said is true, no matter where you work, or what language you speak.

-- 
Fergus Henderson             |  "Australia is the richest country in the world,
fjh@cs.mu.oz.au              |   according to a new system of measuring wealth
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh  |   announced by the World Bank yesterday."
PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 |  - Melbourne newspaper "The Age", 18 Sept 1995.