Proposal3: Make $_ a valid identifier character

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at gate.net
Tue May 30 11:56:48 UTC 2000


>Not true.  Model 33 teletypes were still in use in the 70s (left arrow
>and up arrow, NOT _ and ^).  DEC-10 Prolog, developed in the late 70s,
>was initially upper-case-only because printers with lower case letters
>were not sufficiently widely available at that time; by 1979 lower case
>was the default.

The unavailability of lower case printers, of course, letters doesn't 
support your argument that technology of the times dictated the 
choice of using lower case for space separation.
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