The Newton and Pilot ports will shortly provide handwriting recognition. Windows CE support for voice recognition will be available in a few months and that can be used as a front end to provide speech recognition on older systems as long as they have a compatible keyboard connector. The working third release is scheduled to come out 1Q00. In addition to supporting human languages, this module also supports computer languages. Translating to perl provides better compression than gzip.
Most programs compile into just a single Unicode character.
Maybe next time. As with all previous release, we break new ground in perl's support of regular exressions. The physics community has contributed support for regular expressions that match in up to 20 dimensions. It was initially developed at the Jet Propulsion Labratory to do some calculations for a theoretical FTL manifold that would extend ramjet capabilities beyond the maximum possible with conventional designs which are limited by the speed of light. That automatically caches the most recently used library at the front of the list.