> I. ALL CAPS > Why are we using all caps? The language is not case sensitive. Just curious. Basically, the same reason railroad tracks are the same width as Roman chariot wheels. It started with the Victorian telegraph which had no lower case. The telegraph system was replaced with the Teletype system which had no lower case. The teletype machines were the orginal terminals for computers, so early computer programs were written without lower case. (ASR-33 was a common model, here are a couple webpages: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/teletype.html Note that a lot of Playboy centerfolds were scanned to make ASCII-porn and printed out on these machines, anybody who still has such a printout on original Teletype paper is the winner of the "Oldest Fhart" label.) The standard "some" Olde Fharts use is to lower case 'comments to seperate them from EXECUTABLE CODE. What your end up with is upper case is IMPORTANT TO PROGRAM EXECUTION and lower case is "not as important to program execution".
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Re: variable naming (or, much ado about nothing?)
2004-05-13 by grantrichter2001
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