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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,87555f9f9a68a23a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-16 04:12:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!newsfeed.bahnhof.se!news-stob.telia.net!news-sto.telia.net!194.22.194.4.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Peter Hend�n" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3BCB2FDA.8060807@look.ca> <3BCB6EF6.C76D26FF@boeing.com> <3BCB7ADF.8F6EA596@easystreet.com> Subject: Re: Caselessness... X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:10:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.67.175.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1003230613 213.67.175.183 (Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:10:13 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:10:13 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14651 Date: 2001-10-16T11:10:13+00:00 List-Id: Al Christians wrote: > Wasn't there originally a requirement to target some machines that > didn't support upper and lower case characters? For example, the > typical printer chains that were used on mainframe printers in the early > 1980's didn't have lower case characters on them at all. Case sensitive > would be a major debacle if a machine like that was used to print > code listings. As I recall from a seminar with Ichbiah, Barnes and someone else (it should have been Firth, but he was replaced for some reason), this was one of the reasons. I also seem to remember that discriminating names depending on case was out of the question because it was error prone. I know I have notes of this somewhere, but going back 20 years is iffy at best. Regards, Peter H. -- Peter Hend�n http://www.algonet.se/~phenden ICQ: 14672398 Teknisk Dokumentation AB http://www.tdab.com