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Re: Java's strategic partners
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Brown)
Sat Aug 26 00:52:24 1995
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:18:33 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <v01510102ac63726197bf@[192.0.2.1]> from "Glen C. Perkins" at Aug 25, 95 01:13:00 pm
From: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)
> Every major developer of packaged consumer software is looking for a way to
> do one set of source code for every platform and for every language into
> which they localize. Nobody expects to get there 100%, but the closer you
> get, the more money it's worth. Since Java uses Unicode (yes!!), for
> example, you could easily learn to write your code in such a way that you
> could simply replace the English strings with Japanese or Chinese strings
> without changing any (or much) code.
But you can do that already with Motif. Sheesh :-)
Of course, po' widdle mac and windoze uses don't get much of a break
from this... :-)
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