Steven D'Aprano wrote: > If ONE word in uppercase is read in a SLIGHTLY louder voice, > then naturally it doesn't take much imagination TO READ > EVEN QUITE SHORT PASSAGES OF UNINTERRUPTED UPPERCASE WORDS > AS SHOUTING LOUDLY --
And it doesn't take much of a reality check through my own personal faculties to realize that my newsreader is not currently piped into a text-to-speech process and is not emitting any sound .... :-) Even then, there most likely wouldn't be any extra emphasis on words written in all capital letters unless the tts process was specifically altered to do so .... > regardless of the poor design of programming languages > in the 60s and 70s. I don't think programming languages of that era were poorly designed and especially not just because they happened to be coded in text with all caps .... -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
