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A comment on Ask HN: How much do you use uppercase vs. lowercase characters in your code?.

Re:Ask HN: How much do you use uppercase vs. lowercase chara... by JAA1337 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:19PM (#32857187)
I would respectfully ask for someone to show me EXCLUSIVE UPPERCASE code which was not assembler, fortran 77, nor cobol.
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Re:Ask HN: How much do you use uppercase vs. lowercase chara... by marssaxman on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:42PM (#32857503)
Your list omits BASIC, much of which looked like this:

https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/blob/m...

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you use uppercase vs. lowercase chara... by simonblack on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:46PM (#32860532)
Up until about the 80s, lowercase capability was a very expensive optional-extra in I/O computer equipment.

So any language/program/data-entry used in the 30 years before about that era will be (almost) exclusively UPPER-CASE.

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you use uppercase vs. lowercase chara... by adamrezich on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:22PM (#32857236)
I EXCLUSIVE UPPERCASE SQL, not really sure why, just find it more readable
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