scanf style parsing

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:48:14AM -0700, Jon Nicoll wrote:
> trivial followup: isn't it ... amazing ... the number of programs
> which still have this kind of output?
> 
> > > 
> > > smtpmail.exe - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>                           ___           ___

   No, it is not. In Russian, for example, it is very hard to automatically
change a word - Russian is very computer-unfriendly :) There are far too
many rules, conditions, exceptions and so on.
   On the lighter side - it has very simple rules of pronounciation. Unlike
that damn English, that has exactly One Rule of Pronounciation: every word
is an exception :)))

Oleg.
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