Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
by amelius on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:52PM
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I like that I can write:
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Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
by sillystu04 on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:57PM
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You probably don’t like this:
String string = “String.com”;
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
by amelius on Saturday May 10, 2025 @07:18PM
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I don't see the problem to be honest.
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
by Dwedit on Sunday May 11, 2025 @01:05PM
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I can't imagine that working in any programming language, given the smart quotes.
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
by tedunangst on Saturday May 10, 2025 @08:47PM
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You don't need case sensitivity for that.
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
by amelius on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:19PM
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Perhaps if you redesigned the language. But case sensitivity makes things a lot clearer.
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
by int_19h on Sunday May 11, 2025 @11:59PM
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Imagine if instead you could write:
w̲i̲n̲d̲o̲w̲* window = new w̲i̲n̲d̲o̲w̲(...)
(that's the original ALGOL 60 reference language syntax, for the curious; although it didn't have user-defined types, so it was keywords that were underlined)Then there's the Smalltalk approach:
aWindow := Window new ...