From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book
Date: 1996/11/20
Date: 1996-11-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56uqhq$5tf@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E12rqM.1Io@beaver.cs.washington.edu
Richard Pattis (pattis@cs.washington.edu) wrote:
: Since this discussion is still ongoing (and civil), I'd like to support Mike's
: position on capitalized reserved words with the following observations, as
: a long time CS1 instructor. I'll try to be short and non-redundant; but I
: have read only most, not all the messages on this topic.
: [...snip...]
OK, here's another contrary view to keep the pot boiling.
If you use all-caps, procedure HELLO_WORLD might be mistyped
near-invisibly as procedure HELL0_W0RLD which would give rise
to some very puzzling (to a beginner) errors. However, procedure
Hello_World and procedure Hell0_W0rld are visibly distinct...
(Oh well, I suppose I ought to make the counter-argument for
fairness' sake: procedure HELLO is easy to distinguish from
procedure HE110... :-)
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1996-10-26 0:00 Looking for good Ada95 book Lars Lundgren
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Rapicault Pascal
[not found] ` <01bbc5d8$a3b24e00$6a9148a6@cornerstone.mydomain.org>
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Silliness (was: Looking for good Ada95 book) Adam Beneschan
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Michael F Brenner
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Mark Shaw
1996-11-06 0:00 ` James Thiele
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Silliness (was: Looking for good Ada95 book) Chris Morgan
1996-11-08 0:00 ` bill.williams
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Michael Feldman
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Capitalization Entropy (was: Looking for good Ada95 book) Scott James
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Richard Pattis
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Do-While Jones
1996-11-20 0:00 ` John English [this message]
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-21 0:00 ` FerretWoman
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Testing teaching belief? Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Debora Weber-Wulff
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Tom Pastuszak
1996-11-04 0:00 ` John English
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Wolfgang Gellerich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-11-12 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
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