Re: Five Years After

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:25:00 -0800 (PST), Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>
>Are upper-case keywords a Wirthianism? AFAIK, Oberon is the only one with case-sensitivity for keywords (Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and [even if not developed-by, certainly influenced-by Wirth] Ada).
>
	Pascal User Manual and Report 3rd (aka Jensen&Wirth) uses lowercase
keywords in the text (and mentions that hand written program listings
should underline them to emphasize reserved status). States they may be
written in upper or lowercase.

	Programming in Modula-2 3rd text uses upper case for reserved words --
but the sentence "These latter are written in capital letters and must not
be used as identifiers." is not clear on if upper case is a convention, or
a requirement. Ah, wait -- the "Report" section of the book states "These
reserved words consist exclusively of capital letters ..."
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