RE: The Guru mutation

From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Sat May 20 2000 - 19:25:07 BST

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    Subject: RE: The Guru mutation
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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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