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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
Message-ID: <10097@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Apr 89 00:22:59 GMT
References: <1989Apr21.194615.5344@utzoo.uucp> <4402@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4402@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>I determined then, that if I ever write my dream-language, it's identifiers
>at least will pass the telephone test.

The "telephone test" seems no more relevant for programming language
design than it is for the validity of English grammar.  Your quoted
sentence passes the "telephone test" despite its erroneous use of the
contraction "it's" for the possessive pronoun "its".