> Welsh is actually quite different from the other two. It uses lots of ll and ff and it uses w as a vowel (e.g., cwm).
Welsh also uses a circumflex accent to extend any of the vowels, and since both 'w' and 'y' are vowels in Welsh (leading to many jokes by English speakers about words with no vowels) they can have the circumflex accent too. I've had problems in the past finding the alt-codes to generate w or y with a circumflex accent - so those may be unique to Welsh.
From http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/bylanguage/welsh.html :
> Because of the writing system, Welsh places accents on the letters w (phonetic /u/) and y (phonetic /ɨ/ or /i/), which is very unique in languages of the world. These symbols require Unicode support apart from that of other Western European languages.
The anaemic way would turn that 10,000 line file into something closer to 10,000 one-line files. To me, that is the very definition of spaghetti code.
My biggest problem with the enterprise Java way of doing things is the fact that you have to open 18 files just to figure out how the hell one small bit of functionality works.
It's all very pretty, but having looked at the source code for the page it's not really very semantic. If you're creating buttons and using DIVs and not one BUTTON, you've completely missed the point of semantic HTML. Menus are lists of links - why DIV > DIV > A instead of UL > LI > A? The latter provides meaning to the structure whilst the former does not.
I wish I could upvote this more than once. A lot of comments here are positive about the idea of a single global language when it's their language that wins out. I strongly suspect that if it were Mandarin, Arabic or Russian instead of English that was being suggested, their enthusiasm for the idea might be more muted.
One of the benefits of learning to program J for me has been to make it easy to remember hard to crack passwords. I have some passwords which are actually runnable J on-liner programs and contain all kind of '#!$' symbols. All I need to do is remember what they do so that I can recreate them.
The original comment I replied to was suggesting that the date picker was a bad thing. My point is that it's better than any other method, since parsing a date correctly for all people in all situations in the way implied in that post is not possible. There will always be ambiguity over the date if the user chooses to use 'dd/mm/yyyy' or 'mm/dd/yyyy'. Chaking location, or locale isn't much use - we brits go to America on occasion, and they come over here. If you mark it as [dd/mm/yyyy] then you've just limited the usefulness of 'a free-form date that gets parsed smartly'.
Welsh also uses a circumflex accent to extend any of the vowels, and since both 'w' and 'y' are vowels in Welsh (leading to many jokes by English speakers about words with no vowels) they can have the circumflex accent too. I've had problems in the past finding the alt-codes to generate w or y with a circumflex accent - so those may be unique to Welsh.
From http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/bylanguage/welsh.html : > Because of the writing system, Welsh places accents on the letters w (phonetic /u/) and y (phonetic /ɨ/ or /i/), which is very unique in languages of the world. These symbols require Unicode support apart from that of other Western European languages.