Would UNIX then have used all upper case just to be different? Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CAPS Fantasia (was: argv for z/OS C++ batch) On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:01:32 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: > >- Yes, I'm clear on the difference between the restrictions imposed by PARM= >(one parm, 100 chars), TSO (a tendency to convert to U/C, and yes, I agree >with gil, over-compensating by converting to l/c when ASIS is specified is >just brain dead), ISPF (a tendency to convert to u/c), and C argv (only one >parm, possibly parsed into words). > Wouldn't it have been glorious if the original definition of 6-bit BCD had specified lower case alphabetics _instead_of_ upper case? FORTRAN (excuse me) fortran programs would have been written in lower case; data set names would be lower case; and jcl would be lower case (but programmers might need to surround 'Upper Case' characters with apostrophes lest they be flagged as invalid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
