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 ...

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 ...

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 ...