Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!labrea!sri-unix!trent From: trent@unix.SRI.COM (Ray Trent) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Just Wondering Message-ID: <30008@sri-unix.SRI.COM> Date: 28 Apr 89 18:34:02 GMT References: <12481@lanl.gov> Reply-To: trent@unix.sri.com (Ray Trent) Distribution: na Organization: SRI, Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 19 In the referenced article, jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: >>> Why is C case-sensitive? >> BecAUSe peopLE arE CaSE senSITive, as YOU CAn noW see. > >Ah, but do you intend to imply that "BecAUSe peopLE arE CaSE senSITive, >as YOU CAn noW see" has a different _MEANING_ from "Because people are >case sensitive, as you can now see?" The fact is that most people are I would claim that. Your article damns your argument, in this case :-), because I claim (with some certainty) that you would never had replied in this way if the previous author had written "Because people are case sensitive, as you can now see." The implication of this assertion is that some additional information *was* conveyed by the previous author's use of non-standard capitalization. -- "When you're down, it's a long way up When you're up, it's a long way down It's all the same thing And it's no new tale to tell" ../ray\..