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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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