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(...) Well, one of the reasons many high-level languages are case-sensitive is that it vastly increases flexibility and expressiveness. Languages such as Lisp, Forth, PostScript, Perl, etc. with advanced string manipulation capabilities, dynamic (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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[I suppose this should move to off-topic. Oh well.] (...) If you say so. (...) I'll disagree that it only *seems* restricting *on the surface*. When I read "assert(x)" and "ASSERT(x)", my brain thinks they mean the same thing. I've used systems (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Well, I dunno, maybe those languages wouldn't be severely hampered by case- insensitivity. I always thought that was the reason they were designed to be case-sensitive. (...) OK, yes, that's certainly a readability restriction. What I meant (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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While the discussion to Case or not to Case is very interesting and I hope it continues, I would like inject something at this point. A bit of history if you will. Way back when ( Mr. Peabody please set the Wayback Machine for the cusp between main (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Oh yes it's broke (.... because I just changed some chars into caps randomly, but we don't need to tell the boss that, right?) (...) And second because people don't want to take the time to type in: Print_A_Line_To_The_Screen ("Hello World"); (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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There's one problem with the 'shorter to save storage space' issue: COBOL is much older than C. I believe COBOL was the second compiled language (right after FORTRAN). C came quite a bit later, after a significant amount of improvement in the (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I'm reading into your response that I wasn't very clear in my earlier 'if you say so'. I meant to say that I don't have much knowledge on the languages and concepts you mentioned. I've been in a VB & SQL ghetto for the last few years. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36cc20bc.5396372@lu...et.com>... (...) This is true, Steve, but even COBOL used all caps on the 80 column cards. Most of the early keypunch machines had only caps. Did you ever wonder why the standard VDT line length (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) True. It just wasted more bytes with long source code than it saved with a small character set. Then again, when it really mattered, the source code was prolly kept in card decks, and only the compiled code ever made it to magnetic storage. (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36cd9ed5.15435527@l...et.com>... (...) Oh, geez, now were did I put that cane? (...) I had the same problem right after I exited the purely computer room environment. ( Are there any of those still left? Maybe in lower (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:02:28 GMT, "Earls HouseHold" <brandone@mounet.com> wrote: <cross your 0's and dot your z's> That's not a computer habit, it's a mathemathician's habit. Of course, the one flows from the other. Jasper (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36ddfaf9.136179631@...et.com>... (...) Ah, yes, Connections. Now were did I put my TV Guide? I always did need reminding that everything has connection to something else. Thanks, Jasper. Roy (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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