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Capital letters didn't mean shouting until after the internet - or at least texting, BBSs and such - became popular.
by jpindar 7y ago
Capital letters didn't mean shouting until after the internet - or at least texting, BBSs and such - became popular.
- ksaj 7y agoI think the same for programming languages. For example, all old LISP programs were capitalized. Nowadays we call it lisp and everything is primarily lowercase (Not Even CamelCase). It's pretty rare to see capitalized lisp code these days. Here's a bit of parody code I wrote on the subject. https://github.com/ksaj/Capitalize.Lisp https://github.com/ksaj/Capitalize.Lisp (protip: It doesn't do anything the comments say it does, even though the results appear to.)
- walshemj 7y agoOlder versions of FORTRAN where upper case though you could use Mixed case for Hollerith statements (used for Mixed case output) It was considered a bit flash to use this but for interactive programs input prompts looked a lot nicer.
- ksaj 7y agoI used to program in assembler. You can't imagine the glee that erupted within me the day I discovered you didn't have to write all caps. It changed my coding aesthetics immediately. Nowadays I only use ALLCAPS to visually mark code that I want to refactor, or where later attention is needed, such as for code that might open security vulnerabilities if handled incorrectly.
- fanf2 7y agoThis article has examples of SHOUTING going back to the 1800s https://meh.com/forum/topics/capital-crimes-part-1--shout-shout-let-it-all-out https://meh.com/forum/topics/capital-crimes-part-1--shout-sh...