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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> "Gautier no_direct_reply_please" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > Let's add that this not the typical style or a required syntax
> > of Ada, but bad habits of programmers who were accustomed
> > to punched cards, capital letters, PDP-8 machines and were
> > resticted to program in FORTRAN-66 or C in their youth.
>
> ALL_CAPS *was* the recommended style for Ada 83.
> So it doesn't go back to punch cards and the like.
>

Sorry, could you comment on this a bit more?
I know it was a stated requirement that any
program *can* be written in all capitals, but
recommended?