[erlang-questions] A proposal for Unicode variable and atom names in Erlang.

[Michael Richter]

On 22 October 2012 13:08, Yurii Rashkovskii <yrashk@REDACTED> wrote:

> Please excuse my ignorance, but can you name a single good reason for
> non-latin atoms and variable names? From my personal point of view, this is
> a sure road to hell.


Because people frequently like to work in their own language instead of a
foreign language they ill understand?

Jesus!  How can so many smart people be so god-damned dumb over this issue?

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