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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/16
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Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> In article <wcc8zro93vg.fsf@world.std.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> 
> > I find myself going to some trouble to avoid starting a sentence with a
> > case-senstive name -- "The 'gcc' command compiles Ada programs.", rather
> > than "'gcc' compiles Ada programs.", which is ugly, or "'Gcc' compiles
> > Ada programs.", which is wrong.
> 
> Isn't it only wrong on case-sensitive operating systems ?

Yes.  For example, the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language
Scheme capitalizes identifiers at the beginning of a sentence.
Usually, they are written entirely in lowercase letters, but it
doesn't matter because Scheme is not case-sensitive. ;-)