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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T. H.)
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Subject: Re: Coding in lowercase - references?
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Date: 18 Nov 90 22:43:26 GMT
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... parks@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU forgets to attribute the following:

>>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?

In writing ACOS code for my BBS, I have come to the decision on having all
commands in lowercase and all variables in caps, public labels in caps,
and regular labels in lowercase.  To me it makes the code much more
readable, much better than the programs I see where the programmer felt
that every command must begin with a capital letter.

Each language has its conventions.  Pascal for having constants in CAPS
and other variables in lower/mixed case.  I even got into the habit of
using different captialization of my begin and end statements.  If it is
the begin and end for the main program, they are BEGIN and END.  If they
are for procedures/functions, they are Begin and End, and otherwise as
begin and end.  Other things with Pascal I did was:

 procedure x (y, z: integer);

 Begin
   .
   :
   if ... then begin
     .
     :
   end else begin
     .
     :
   end;
   .
   :
 End; (* x *)

I won't bother going into any other languages right now.  I fell asleep
after 3 AM last night with a can of C__e and a bag of D_____s.

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