Elegant Programming

If you have looked LINQ at all, you’ll realize that Microsoft hacked the heck out of VB’s syntax in order to make things work. This begs the question: why can’t the same be done for regular expressions? Perl regular expressions are built into the natural syntax of the language, which makes it easy to use [...]

Here’s a great article on Unicode. It describes the history of Unicode, including the reasons that lead to the demand for it, and explains why every programmer needs to be familiar with it. As Joel says, “There’s no such thing as plain-old-text anymore.”