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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
Message-ID: <4414@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 22:32:32 GMT
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From article <19925@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, by bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante):
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> 
> I can't recall EVER wanting to communicate a program to someone orally,
> either over a phone (excuse me, fohn) or in person.
>

It's not so much whether you want to or not, it's just that in the real
world of engineering, one is continually discussing programs with other
people. Every day.

> When I have to, I
> specify it character by character, and if some of those characters are
> uppercase, or are blanks, or are oddball printable characters, I name
> them as such.
> 

If you have to transcribe an entire program precisely, you use a tape
or a floppy, for Pete's sake.  I'm talking about how you conduct
conversations about programs, not how you transcribe them.