I live in the USA and have a credit card issued by an American bank. When I pay my bill online, I want the $ and comma to work like I've known they work ever since I was in first grade over 50 years ago.
I don't give a fuck about how the rest of the world does numbers and banking. That's their problem. If the UK were still using guineas and shillings, should I care about that?
No. Deal with foreign currency problems on their websites. If the rest of the world wants to use commas and periods backwards from the way we do, then solve that problem for them elsewhere. Don't make my life difficult just so you can use the same code for a website in Elbonia.
The rest of the world's problems are not my problems. Solve them, or don't. But don't make my life hard because you're* too fucking lazy to do the right thing.
Computers should exist to make peoples' lives easier. People shouldn't be required to make programmers' lives easier.
/rant off
*not you personally, I don't know what you do, it's just an indefinite pronoun
I don't give a fuck about how the rest of the world does numbers and banking. That's their problem. If the UK were still using guineas and shillings, should I care about that?
No. Deal with foreign currency problems on their websites. If the rest of the world wants to use commas and periods backwards from the way we do, then solve that problem for them elsewhere. Don't make my life difficult just so you can use the same code for a website in Elbonia.
The rest of the world's problems are not my problems. Solve them, or don't. But don't make my life hard because you're* too fucking lazy to do the right thing.
Computers should exist to make peoples' lives easier. People shouldn't be required to make programmers' lives easier.
/rant off
*not you personally, I don't know what you do, it's just an indefinite pronoun