Programming languages are unnecessarily difficult to work with because they rely on the artificial constraint of using only ASCII characters, a noted programmer argues in the November issue of the ...

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] ...

Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

Famed programmer Poul-Henning Kamp argues that programming languages are limited by their reliance on ASCII Programming languages are unnecessarily difficult to work with because they rely on the ...