From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:46:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201408041946.s74JkR9R019005@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> (raw)
> Remember that writing programs on terminals was a relative latecomer --
> FORTRAN was designed for punched cards.
Remember that FORTRAN also was a latecomer. It was a shock
to convert from the full character set of the Flexowriters at
Whirlwind to the rebarbative upper-case-only of the 704.
In that vein, there was a period when the Chicago Manual Style
disparaged uppercase text, with an exception being made for
computer programs, which of course should be presented in
upper case.
Doug
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