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Fun fact: the earliest versions of the ASCII standard only had encodings for uppercase letters. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#History https://en.wikipedi

by derefr 4y ago

Fun fact: the earliest versions of the ASCII standard only had encodings for uppercase letters. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#History)

Xorakios 4y ago
FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC all used all caps in the 70s when I started to learn programming. People thought I was a nutcase for abandoning cursive in high school! And don't get me started on punch card programming in college in 1980 :)
- eyegor 4y ago
  Despite ~60 years of updates, the fortran language still isn't case sensitive.
- Wowfunhappy 4y ago
  Why were people still using punchcards in the 80s?
  - tanseydavid 4y ago
    To make confetti out of the chads for parades. ;)
  - Xorakios 4y ago
    Alas, at Princeton University 1980 that was the only way to submit programs. I was doing tech support for professors as part of my work-study package and a couple hours a week on a green-bar paper teletype sorta like this was a huge benefit: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/teletype_model_33_illustration.jpg?trim=1,1&bg-color=000&pad=1,1 https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/teletyp...