With ten tentacle tips effortlessly keeping track of the goto's and their destinations in his spaghetti Hello World program, Fnork cannot understand why mere Earthlings have so much trouble with labels. For last week's cartoon Labels, I wanted a convincingly alien writing system for Fnork's programming language. But I didn't want to use Armenian or Georgian or Telugu, beautiful though they are. Or Tamil, which I've always thought of as visual jazz, all neon lights and Rhapsody in Blue made graphic. Some reader would be bound to recognise them as real scripts. So I used the Shaw alphabet.

June 14, 2010
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