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Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:12:46 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36cc20bc.5396372@lugnet.com>...
> There's one problem with the 'shorter to save storage space' issue:
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> COBOL is much older than C. I believe COBOL was the second compiled
> language (right after FORTRAN).
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> C came quite a bit later, after a significant amount of improvement in
> the price::space relationship.
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> COBOL is extremely wordy. C is terse.
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 was 80 characters back before someone decided
that it would be nice to use all the paper space on a 14 X 11 fan fold
sheet? It started with them cards. I can still remember having to program
I/O with patch board and hardwire. Does that make me a geezer? What it
boils down to is "you like what you like and you usually like what you use
the most".
Roy
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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. (...) (25 years ago, 19-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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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