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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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| | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Roy Earls
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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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| | | | | | Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages —Steve Bliss
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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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