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Robin wrote:
<<I said I came across it in Pascal, but the main
project I was involved in at that time was programming Windows 1.0 (1.1?)
using Pascal, believe it or not! So that might very well be relevant. I
can't remember what we did while learning Pascal, before encountering the
examples that came with the Windows SDK. (It was a college project, for my
MSc in IT.)>>
Wild! Of course, it just occurred to me that lowercase letters have only
been in use in computing since the late '70s, so there was really no
opportunity to use embedded caps before then.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
http://www.memecentral.com/rbrodie.htm
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