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Postings from July 2011
The third and last of my OSCON talks now has its slides available:
π« Unicode Support Shootout:
π The Good, the Bad, & the (mostly) Ugly π
The POD is the plaintext source; the Javascript-driven HTML slideshow looks
the nicest provided you have Garamond and Symbola installed; and the PDF is
for printing so you donβt have to worry about fonts.
POD: http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/gbu/gbu.pod
HTML: http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/gbu/index.html
PDF: http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/gbu/gbu.pdf
There are slideshow controls hidden down in the bottom right of
the slideshow. Hover and they'll appear.
This is a hottie: I'll be burning through a slide a minute.
Maybe that way they won't follow me well enough to want to
shoot me when I deliver all the bad and ugly news. :)
*Not* a pretty picture, especially for the webby languages.
* Perl wins by a landslide: just look at slides 5&6 and you'll
see that right away.
* Java comes in (a rather distant) second.
* The other 4 (or 7) are so plagued by various inherent design
flaws that I really don't know how they'll ever overcome them.
They are not suitable for even the most basic of Unicode work,
per The Unicode Standard.
Corrections welcome.
--tom
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