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Date:Mon Mar 30 13:50:09 2000 
Subject:Re: FWD: from Jonathan Cunningham about Macintosh implementations 
From:davidy 
Volume-ID:1000330.02 

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Jonathan L Cunningham wrote:

> There is another advantage to removing error messages from the
> source code ... internationalisation.
> 
> In developing a C++ application, modern tools make this relatively
> simple to do. (The strings aren't stored in a file, but in 
> a "string table".)
> 
> ...
>
> This is so obvious, I wonder if it has already been done?

Perhaps not for Poplog, but I remember going to a BCS talk in about 1980
where someone was presenting a big Fortran package they had produced,
for the Ordnance Survey I think, which had all the messages in a file so
they could slot in other languages. They'd been doing it for quite a few
years, too. I thought it was an obviously right way to do it then, and
couldn't quite see why the man was making such a big deal of it. It's
easy in Fortran - does C++ buy you anything?

David