From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-12-22T00:30:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel and Ruby

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

> 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

The tactile writing system known as Moon was designed to work like
that.  It had guide lines like giant parentheses joining line ends
to show you the flow.  RNIB removed this feature because they wanted
it to be more like print.  Moon is more bulky than braille, but this
was one really good feature in its favour.
> 
> More information at:
> lmth.nodehportsuob/B/lmth/nograj/rse~/gro.btac.www//:ptth
> -- 
> Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
> 
        Hugh
>