From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:07:54 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Five Years After Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:07:54 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <942235344.537649945.074508.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <288039467.538377555.666858.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <62033550-4044-450b-9010-beba11f99f4e@googlegroups.com> <2d9ffdfe-bfcc-4d9c-b1ff-c402565d098c@googlegroups.com> <6eec86eb-a0b4-458b-a1dd-a968bb46ac02@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.118.199 X-Trace: sv3-qS192r/OPUmBNi3AWSXLJnHFs/52rDJrKVHXkHGcyYYyybxmxGomHGR1ckSyzK2wh6nArm9F4o2jrT4!Q+g4o9l3KdT9lJH8oUJrJwK//zpIKNSOVC8sJieOtvOh3Q99gfAUeZXQ1De8kZ9nvzZlX/MVClmZ!yiG9557V27cQAYIwsO22E+wLLEhy X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2533 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3774674297 X-Received-Bytes: 2776 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50172 Date: 2018-01-26T19:07:54-05:00 List-Id: On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:25:00 -0800 (PST), Shark8 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 ..." -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/