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From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] Mac OS X is Unix
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:49:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1483537780.1568758.837041257.2B050532@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1DC5B50-AE09-49E7-8406-4DB15483D4AB@tfeb.org>

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017, at 07:26, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> The thing to avoid is 'language in a string', where one language contains
> another language in strings (or equivalent), because then you end up
> putting the inner language together by concatenating strings, which can
> cross-cut constructs in the inner language in a horrible way.

What about having the *same* language in strings? Like TCL?


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-04 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-03 20:19 Doug McIlroy
2017-01-03 21:05 ` Charles Anthony
2017-01-03 21:33   ` [TUHS] When was #if introduced in C? (was: Re: Mac OS X is Unix) Michael Kjörling
2017-01-03 21:53     ` Robert Swierczek
2017-01-03 21:57       ` Clem Cole
2017-01-03 21:56     ` Clem Cole
2017-01-03 21:35 ` [TUHS] Mac OS X is Unix Clem Cole
2017-01-03 22:10   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-01-03 21:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-01-03 22:12   ` ron minnich
2017-01-03 23:39     ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-04  0:12       ` ron minnich
2017-01-04  9:11         ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-04 10:04           ` Álvaro Jurado
2017-01-04  0:13 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-04  3:50 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 12:26   ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-04 13:49     ` Random832 [this message]
2017-01-04 15:02     ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 17:14       ` tfb

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