I think that the upper/lower case issue -- albeit not a show stopper for anyone - is "much worse than that".
Besides the "internal" back-n-forth about programming in basic, and what case should be "current", I think that a bigger issue revolves around data presentation and converting to a "modern" display and "modern" usage. For example, reports, mailing labels, "Dear John" letters... I mean, as a programmer, I can use MCU - that works great, MCL - not as useful, but, still works as documented. MCT? It's embarrassing. Dr. Mark Jones, MD is almost impossible to return. Mark Jones III - allows me to send a "state of the art" letter addressed to "Mark Jones Iii". SEARCH is another of my pet peeves. It should be *smart enough* to figure out, or at least provide an option to be case insensitive. Maybe it does, and I'm not aware. But it just always seemed crazy. So, I search - string? "MARK JONES" then "Mark Jones" then "Mark jones" then "mark jones". BTREES? Although some may disagree, Mark Jones and MARK JONES are the same thing - at least in our business environment. I think that if we want to work in a world that doesn't shout at us all the time, then we need to look beyond how to write a basic program That's my $.02 (hey, what happened to the "cent" character... it used to be there... I know it was... oh, maybe that was on the typewriters that didn't allow lower case) Laura -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mats Carlid Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 6:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Upper Case Only One reason for why the upper case only thing started that has been mentioned in this thread is that some early terminals didn't have lower case. This is indeed true but it used to be much worse than that ! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.11/723 - Release Date: 3/15/2007 11:27 AM ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
