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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just Wondering
Message-ID: <2651@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 89 19:07:11 GMT
References: <2617@buengc.BU.EDU> <12480@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <12480@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>From article <2617@buengc.BU.EDU>, by bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton):
>> In article <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin) writes:
>> 2.  Huminz iz not cumpooterz.  We like it that way, and we make the
>> silly microchips do what WE ask.  [...]                           
>
>But, I _don't_ like it that way.  Ask any literate human whether "Tree"
>means something different than "tree" and you'll find out that most humans
>aren't case sensitive most of the time.

Suggestion:

alias cc to run your source through 'tr [a-z] [A-Z]' then feed it
to '/bin/cc'.  _You_ can decide what to do about options and the
ordering thereof.

				--Blair
				  "Besides, in all of my programs
				   I always have variables named
				   If, foR, and siZeof... :-)"