Daniel Wigton on Nostr: It is a little appreciated fact that the size of the alphabet is a hard limit on the ...
It is a little appreciated fact that the size of the alphabet is a hard limit on the total complexity of a program. The variable z being traditionally used to hold an array of pointers to values that no longer fit in the namespace.
The nice thing about utf-8 is that we can have more than 26 variables by introducing Greek letters.
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