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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just Wondering
Message-ID: <10111@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 25 Apr 89 05:12:31 GMT
References: <2006@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> <12564@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12564@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>Even UNIX based supers mostly use Fortran-like languages for production.

Where that's true, for example perhaps LANL, I'm sure it's not because
C identifiers support case distinction.  It is much more likely an
inertial effect.  At BRL, many of the important applications that run
on our Crays are written in C.