A Python implementation of formal systems from the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach”

Re:A Python implementation of formal systems from the book “... by mixmastamyk on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:16PM (#13998530)

Didn't the original PC have lowercase? I thought I programmed TP in mixed-case, but can't remember.

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Re:A Python implementation of formal systems from the book “... by pjmlp on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:43AM (#14001645)

Pascal wasn't case sensitive, so it was mostly a matter of style.

On Modula-2 and Oberon languages and their descendants keywords are uppercase and the languages are case sensitive.

But you could anyway write in lowercase and let the editor format the code for you, no need for banging the shift key all the time. :)

Actually I kind of like having keywords as uppercase, it means on a poor man's teletype or modern black-and-white printer without formatting, it is easier to spot the keywords versus the rest of code.

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Re:A Python implementation of formal systems from the book “... by defined on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:04PM (#13999699)

I definitely programmed TP 1.0 in mixed case on a TRS-80 Model II running CP/M.

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Re:A Python implementation of formal systems from the book “... by ehudla on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:37AM (#14001375)

Sure. It was a style thing!

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