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Date:Mon Jul 6 17:56:02 1994 
Subject:Re: Why I hate C, Like Dylan 
From:Barry Margolin 
Volume-ID:940707.04 

In article <2vcjiu$4qe@opine.cs.umass.edu> pop@cs.umass.edu ( Robin Popplestone ) writes:
>lack of case-sensitivity may be merely a matter of style, but it does point
>to a departure from mathematical practice - mathematicians are always keen
>to use as many fonts as they can get their paws upon, and regard it as
>sinful to throw away half of the only one that (even now) commonly
>available for program composition.

Mathematical practice should hardly be seen as a model for good programming
style.  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>.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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