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Why have UTF8 support if you won't write your code in the Sumerian clay tablet alphabet of Ancient Mesopotamia? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The difference is that the above Sumerian could be dealt with using find and replace in a dire situation, while APL is a write-only language.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I dunno, there's probably less than ten people who can actually speak Sumerian, and there's at least a dozen people who can read APL.