The Perl 6 community refers to ASCII as "Texas" for some reason http://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode_texas …
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I'm sure there's a perfectly Larry Wall explanation for this
I'm sure the explanation is mildly humorous at first and increasingly aggravating every time you have to explain it to someone else
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"Why don't you just call it ASCII?" "Because then we wouldn't get to have this conversation!"
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The "because everything's bigger there" explanation doesn't work because half of the ASCII operators are smaller bytewise than the Unicode.
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@qntm perl 6 is a programming language from people that don't understand "you're only allowed a certain amount of weirdness"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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