From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: The caselessness is one of the things I like best!
Date: 15 Oct 2001 19:04:00 GMT
Date: 2001-10-15T19:04:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9qfbv0$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn9sm93c.8ks.gerhard.nospam@lilith.hqd-internal
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:01:17 +0200, Gerhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= <gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de> wrote:
> Natural written language is case sensitive (in the few languages I know,
> maybe Hebrew isn't).
Only the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts (and to a limited sense
Georgian) have cases. Even in those scripts, I read English text that is
all uppercase or all lowercase all the time without problem; that is,
case rarely carries important meaning in English.
> You don't mix capitalisation in your mathematic works, right? n or |N,
> that matters. Programming languages are just a special form of maths,
> anyway.
You want APL, then. For most other languages, mathematical form is left
behind in a lot of places for the purpose of clarity. This is a feature,
not a bug.
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
"I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each
one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less."
- "Disciple", Stuart Davis
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-15 8:21 Why not combine Ada and C++? Mike Meng
2001-10-15 10:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 10:36 ` Robert*
2001-10-15 11:15 ` Stephen Cole
2001-10-15 12:06 ` The caselessness is one of the things I like best! Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 12:21 ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 12:48 ` UPPERCASE is the typgraphical equivalent of shouting ;-) Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 12:54 ` The caselessness is one of the things I like best! James Rogers
2001-10-15 13:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 15:12 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-15 16:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-18 19:48 ` Simon Wright
2001-10-18 23:35 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 8:48 ` John English
2001-10-16 13:11 ` James Rogers
2001-10-16 18:10 ` tmoran
2001-10-17 8:53 ` Philip Anderson
2001-10-17 10:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-19 14:52 ` john mann
2001-10-15 15:13 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 17:00 ` tmoran
2001-10-15 17:29 ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 17:38 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 18:01 ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 19:04 ` David Starner [this message]
2001-10-15 18:15 ` David Starner
2001-10-15 17:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 18:18 ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-15 18:57 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 13:32 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-22 2:10 ` David Thompson
2001-10-15 13:03 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-22 20:27 ` Kenneth Almquist
2001-10-15 14:39 ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 16:17 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-15 16:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 20:15 ` Robert*
2001-10-15 21:27 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:50 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-18 19:53 ` Simon Wright
2001-10-21 5:54 ` AG
2001-10-24 14:48 ` A UNISYS story Petter Fryklund
2001-10-24 15:03 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-25 7:37 ` Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 17:41 ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Stephen Cole
2001-10-15 18:27 ` tmoran
2001-10-15 20:24 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 20:03 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 18:42 ` Modern languages are case sensitive? Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-15 19:20 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 22:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 11:21 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-10-16 11:42 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-16 13:16 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-16 23:43 ` David Botton
2001-10-17 1:42 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 14:36 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-16 14:50 ` Chris Morgan
2001-10-16 15:18 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 15:47 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-16 16:48 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 17:12 ` David Starner
2001-10-16 20:32 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 21:37 ` David Starner
2001-10-17 8:39 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-18 0:00 ` Will
2001-10-18 2:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-18 2:32 ` Darren New
2001-10-18 11:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 19:47 ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Wes Groleau
2001-10-23 5:39 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-10-23 6:11 ` Richard Riehle
2001-10-15 19:28 ` Baugereau
2001-10-15 20:05 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 7:38 ` Martin Dowie
2001-10-16 11:44 ` Pascal Obry
[not found] ` <01c155a0$7dd31b80$1b7af2c3@akzvbymr>
2001-10-15 20:02 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 20:55 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-10-15 22:15 ` Eric Merritt
2001-10-15 22:42 ` tmoran
[not found] ` <01c15665$dc2e6c00$9b29e8d4@akzvbymr>
2001-10-16 17:48 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 18:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 23:01 ` tmoran
2001-10-16 18:51 ` Marin David Condic
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