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From: ev_remove_this_ans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)
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Subject: Re: Modern languages are case sensitive?
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:36:41 -0400
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In article <5ee5b646.0110160342.23b9481c@posting.google.com>,
dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>                The case sensitive decision of C and
> Unix was in my opinion never well justified or thought out, and now it
> just gets copied.

C followed BCPL in this regard.  When Martin Richards designed
BCPL, in about 1967 or so, upper- and lower-case character sets
were just becoming commonly available.  The design was on CTSS,
where we had case-sensitive editors.  I've seen the compiler's
code, and I can testify that Martin used case-sensitivity
tastefully.

See my comments on this matter in the thread on 'caselessness is
one of the things I like best'.

Art Evans