Re: Fwd: Aspell & international support

[Kevin Atkinson]

Ted Rolle wrote:
> 
> At 01:40 3/1/99 -0500, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Wow.  Quick reply...  I'm not upset...  Really...

The number of '!' would suggest diffrently ;)

> I've been programming since the early days of IBM/360.  I was one of the
> voices saying, "We're stupid not to put the '19' into the year...".  But
> managers -- who are a WHOLE LOT smarter than programmers said, "No, we
> won't put it in.  Besides, we'll all be retired by 2000."
> 
> I've seen so many people go down a garden path with a seemingly innocent
> choice.  Aspell is too good to have that happen to it.

I am thinking over the design of Aspell a lot!  In fact I spend to much
time thinking and not enough time coding.  I will try very hard not to
make those type of choices.  And when I do make those choices such as
sticking with 8-bit charters for now, I will document my reasons well
and will also have an idea of what needs to be done when the time comes
to expand (in this case moving to wider characters.).
-- 
Kevin Atkinson
address@hidden
http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/