Language change and code breaks

[Robin Becker]

In article <cp7kwyqfce.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>, Guido van
Rossum <guido at python.org> writes
>Travis Oliphant <oliphant at ee.byu.edu> writes:
>
>> I'll just chime in to say that as one who uses Python for
>> science/engineering, I would be very unhappy not to be able to define the
>> variables h and H to mean two different things.  Engineers often uses
>> case to distinguish between the function and it's Fourier transform for
>> example.
>
>How did engineers cope with Fortran?  Fortran has long been the
>preferred language for engineers, after C.S. folks moved on to C and
>C++...
>
>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

engineers of which I am one, hated it when we only had 6 characters and
no case sensitivity. 
-- 
Robin Becker