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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/07/30
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> T.E.D. said
> 
> <<Does that mean back in the Ada83 days you made all your identifiers
> all upper- case? Yuk.
> >>
> 
> Many people preferred this concvention, and manhy still do.
> It is a bit silly to say "Yuk" at someone else'es conventions, these
> things are a matter of taste.

Fair enough, but in these days of Internet communication, if you write
SOMETHING in uppercase, reading it is like being screamed at.  

Also, humans read mixed-case text faster then all-caps.