-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CAPS Fantasia (was: argv for z/OS C++ batch)
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:55:33 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: > >However, systems that are built based on prior functioning code and >ideas of how things should be done, now get the shaft because we now >take it that ONE IS SHOUTING BY USING ALL UPPER CASE AS IT USED TO BE. > >IN FACT, MIXED CASE IS A NEW CONSTRUCT. HOW MANY WRITTEN LANGUAGES HAD >MIXED CASE PRIOR TO 1400 AD/CE? > Greek? >Get over it. Or go buy your own cheese to go with the w[h]ine. > You seem to be the one whining about 600 years of tradition. Do you really want to go back to the conventions of 1400? Why didn't you submit your entire message in upper case? The answer comes down to social pressure. And that pressure requires that modern anglophones be addressed in mixed case. <SNIPPAGE> Well, since I've actually written a few compilers, deal with syntax parsing in my current job, have dealt with it in prior jobs, I just thought I'd throw in a bit of history. You just have to accept that different systems were designed and implemented by people who have different reasons for doing things that don't match what you (whoever "you" might be) might like -- making intercommunications between architectures fraught with land mines. Meanwhile, I had thought that Greek had a single case until about 1300AD/CE. And that until Gutenburg and the press, most European written languages were uni-case (upper and lower were available, but once you started writing in one you stayed there -- English has one set of rules, German has another, and English came from German, with some French thrown in for good measure). Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed by this poster may not reflect those of poster's employer -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
