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Date:Mon Jul 6 19:44:23 1994 
Subject:Re: Why I hate C, Like Dylan 
From:Dave Mankins 
Volume-ID:940707.05 

In article <2ver7iINN8jk@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
> The reason mathematicians make such extensive use of fonts and case
> is because all their symbols have only one letter in their names!  If they
> called the real numbers "Real", they wouldn't need <curly-R>.

Yes, but they might still want to 
distinguish between Real (for numbers, say)
and REAL (for the set).