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From: R.DHESI@BSU-CS.BSU.EDU (RAHUL DHESI)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just Wondering
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Date: 21 Apr 89 20:22:12 GMT
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In article <10088@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>Is there some reason C should NOT be case sensitive?

BACK WHEN THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT INVENTING THE FIRST KEYPUNCH, THEY
HAD AN IMPORTANT DECISION TO MAKE:  SHOULD THE KEYPUNCH BE ALL
LOWERCASE OR ALL UPPERCASE?  AFTER MUCH THINKING THEY SAID LETS MAKE
THEM UPPERCASE BECAUSE THEIR SO MUCH EASIER TO REED.

I THINK THIS WAS A WISE DECISION.  EVEN MICROSOFT AGREES WITH ME
BECAUSE WHEN I BOUGHT MICROSOFT FORTRAN FOR MY TRS-80 IT SAID WE
RECOMMEND USE UPPERCASE BECAUSE IT'S EASIER TO REED.  ALSO THE COMPILER
WAS SMART ENOUGH TO CHANGE ALL LOWERCASE TO UPPERCASE IN LISTINGS IN
CASE THE PROGRAMMER FORGOT.  BESIDES STANDARD FORTRAN SAYS YOU BETTER
NOT USE LOWERCASE BECAUSE IT ISN'T IN THE STANDARD, AND ADA SAYS YOU
BETTER NOT DO THE SAME THING EITHER.

SO CONCLUSION I THINK LOWERCASE IS NOT GOOD.  THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED C
(IN UPPERCASE), BESIDES AT&T AGREES WITH ME THAT IT'S "UNIX" IN
UPPERCASE.
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RAHUL DHESI <R.DHESI@BSU-CS.BSU.EDU>
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