Language change and code breaks

[Sibylle Koczian]

Piet van Oostrum wrote:
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> >>>>> Sibylle Koczian <Sibylle.Koczian at Bibliothek.Uni-Augsburg.de> (SK) writes:
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> SK> But that's exactly what he says! Algol 60 was before C, as far as I
> SK> know, and case-insensitive as was normal at the time.
> 
> Sorry, I meant to say that Algol 60 was case sensitive.
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Really? Must have overlooked that: we used teletype machines, no
lowercase letters anyway (where all the keywords uppercase or what?).
Wish I'd kept those yellow punched tapes, they'd look nice on my
pinboard ...

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