Re:Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh
by dkersten on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @01:01PM
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How do you do escape sequences in C (or pretty much every other language)?
Re:Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh
by kstenerud on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @01:32PM
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printf("Some message¥n");
DOS and Win9x were particularly disgusting: C:¥DIR¥SUBDIR¥README.TXT
It's regarded more as a necessary evil than anything else. Any language featuring it prominently will be unlikely to achieve much popularity in Japan.
Re:Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh
by Someone on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @01:38PM
(#4382088)
The reason why that works is that it is not that the Japanese keyboard layout that lacks the backslash, but the Japanese character set. See (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/469941.as... for details)
Also, in C, you can just type ??/ instead of backslash.
Re:Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh
by dkersten on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @01:44PM
(#4382124)
So, as far as ANI is concerned, you could just do latch¥ - no problem ;-) though ugly.
If you were serious about making things easy, you'd look at all the common keyboard layouts (not just American ones) before choosing a "thought-out practical compromise" that is of dubious practicality.