From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-12-22T00:18:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel and Ruby

gabriele renzi <surrender_it@-remove-yahoo.it> writes:

> Nikolai Weibull ha scritto:
>> Hal Fulton wrote:
>> 
>>>Most (human) languages are written left to right. Are Arabic and
>>>Hebrew "wrong" because they aren't?
>> Yes?
>>         nikolai (who wants to debate the merits of top-to-bottom
>> writing
>>                  as well)
>
> actually, I still think bustrofedic, or whatever it is spelled in
> english, still is the best writing system ever. Start top left then go
> right, one line down then go left and so on

I don't think the idea is as clever as you think, for example, how can
dnA(  ?asrev-eciv ro thgir-ot-tfel morf daer ot deen uoy fi tceted uoy
how will the computer?)  Actually, I can't see of a good reason to do
           .yllaunam etirw uoy fi ssel dnah ruoy gnivom naht rehto ti

More information at:
lmth.nodehportsuob/B/lmth/nograj/rse~/gro.btac.www//:ptth
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