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“Angry” languages aren't used much anymore (FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC), so there is no need for Caps Lock.
by paulnechifor 13y ago
“Angry” languages aren't used much anymore (FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC), so there is no need for Caps Lock.
- dima55 13y agoI guess, but do you still not have a use for it? What if you're talking to git and referring to HEAD? Or if you're #defining things in C? Or if you're writing an email and you want to emphasize a few words?
- IsTom 13y agoI hold left shift with my pinky or right shift with my thumb. Unless I do a lot of all-caps typing it's not a problem.
- tokenrove 13y agoAny reasonable text editor will have more efficient ways to capitalize things than dedicating one of the most convenient keys on the keyboard to it. I prefer M-u (by word) or C-x C-u (by region) in emacs.
- aidenn0 13y agoInteresting enough, all of the standard library for Common Lisp is in caps. However, the default reader upcases all unescaped characters. A somewhat common way of getting case sensitivity without (CONS (CAR x) (CDR y)) is to change the reader to be case-inverting (which then requires you to type in all standard-library symbols as lowercase.