From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-04 03:17:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!uio.no!193.216.69.35.MISMATCH!dax.net!juliett.dax.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) References: <0vGdnQFmVPoZj0Gj4p2dnA@gbronline.com> <1054647054.761122@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054651042.211055@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054654285.466839@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Message-ID: <7vptlu4075.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:16:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.216.12.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tele2.no X-Trace: juliett.dax.net 1054721790 193.216.12.150 (Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:16:30 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:16:30 MET DST Organization: Tele2 Norway AS Public Access Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38581 Date: 2003-06-04T10:16:30+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen writes: > John R. Strohm wrote: > > Making the language case-insensitive fixes that problem, > > by preventing it from ever occurring. > > You might be right if the language were case-insensitive, > but it isn't. Character and string literals are sensitive > to case. It's only identifiers which ignore case. So your > hypothetical mainframe environment couldn't handle > Put("Hello, world!"); > > And speaking of such primitive environments, I started > programming in college on a very early UNIX system on a > PDP-11 using uppercase-only terminals that used rolls of > paper, not display screens. The drivers translated all > input to lower case internally, and if you wanted upper > case, you escaped the letter with a backslash. The system > would then print such actual upper case letters with a > backslash prefix. So it was certainly possible to use > mixed case even on such a platform. > Try that with Univac fieldata on punched cards :-) It was actually a nice system to program on... -- Ole-Hj. Kristensen ****************************************************************************** * You cannot consistently believe this sentence. ******************************************************************************