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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-03 09:26:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "David C. Hoos" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:25:48 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38508 Date: 2003-06-03T11:25:48-05:00 List-Id: "Preben Randhol" wrote in message news:slrnbdp21r.1lk.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... > John R. Strohm wrote: > > that show that mixed and lower case are easier for humans to read. You'd > > think some of them never even heard that lower case HAD been invented. > > Sidenote: I heard recently on the radio that the reason it is called > upper case and lower case was that in the old bookprinting times (I > think it was from Guthenberg if I recall correctly) the capital letters > were stored in the upper case (drawer) while the small letters where > stored in the lower case. And from this the names came. Can anybody > comfirm this? > Yes. From http://www.etymonline.com/c2etym.htm case (2) - "receptacle," c.1300, from O.N.Fr. casse, O.Fr. chasse, from L. capsa "box," from capere "to take, hold." The verb meaning "examine, inspect" (usually prior to robbing) is Amer.Eng. slang first recorded 1915. Staircase is from 1663. Artillery sense is from 1667, from case-shot "small projectiles put in cases" (1625). Reference in the printing trade (first recorded 1588) to the two trays where compositors keep their types in separate compartments for easy access led to upper case for capitals and lower case for small letters. > -- > Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ > _______________________________________________ > comp.lang.ada mailing list > comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org > http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada >