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From: north@manta.NOSC.MIL (Mark H. North)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: case
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Date: 13 Nov 90 03:37:45 GMT
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Reply-To: north@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Mark H. North)
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In article <20517.273e9e6b@merrimack.edu> gerlekm@merrimack.edu writes:
>Help -
>
>Some time ago, on one of these groups, yet another discussion occurred
>on whether programs should be coded in upper or lower or even mixed
>case letters.  Someone claimed that lower case was better, because our
>eyes are more trained ("used to") to lowercase letters -- does anyone
>have a reference for this, or any related studies?
>
>One of my profs thinks I'm making this up, and I need proof :-)
>Thnaks in advance.
>

Well, to me, my eyes are 'trained' to see FORTRAN and BASIC in upper case,
Pascal in mixed case and c in lower case and if someone gave me code
violatiing these preconceived notions I would probably have a stroke.
Call me hide-bound.


Mark










From postnews Mon Nov 12 19:35:25 1990
In article <20517.273e9e6b@merrimack.edu> gerlekm@merrimack.edu writes:
>Help -
>
>Some time ago, on one of these groups, yet another discussion occurred
>on whether programs should be coded in upper or lower or even mixed
>case letters.  Someone claimed that lower case was better, because our
>eyes are more trained ("used to") to lowercase letters -- does anyone
>have a reference for this, or any related studies?
>
>One of my profs thinks I'm making this up, and I need proof :-)
>Thnaks in advance.
>

Well, to me, my eyes are 'trained' to see FORTRAN and BASIC in upper case,
Pascal in mixed case and c in lower case and if someone gave me code
violatiing these preconceived notions I would probably have a stroke.
Call me hide-bound.


Mark