Different subject all together. I don't think anyone would disagree that
there is a need to store (some) data in upper/lower case. The ongoing
discussion has been about program source code, the 'consumer' of which
is the machine itself who really doesn't give a hoot one way or another.
Oh, and just because its Friday and therefore I'm in a particularly
jovial mood has anyone anyone considered during this crusade that no
matter how you write your source code it compiles to psudocode that is
ALL UPPER CASE!!!
:)
Laura Hirsh wrote:
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
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