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From: rob@phavl.UUCP (Robt. I. Ransbottom)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Explanation of "Case-sensitive"
Summary: Not a mistake
Message-ID: <396@phavl.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 00:41:41 GMT
References: <13174@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <860@tp.Solbourne.COM>
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In article <860@tp.Solbourne.COM>, ddv@Solbourne.COM (Dan DeVries) writes:
> [...]
> Why is C case sensitive?  And who can we blame for this mistake?

Why waste the cycles.
Who?  Thompson & Ritchie get the credit for this.

I can't recall any required use of uppercase in C.  tolower your source
into cc if you wish.

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 ...!uunet!phavl!rob              Robert Ransbottom