Case sensitive and ludicrous statements

[Mark Jackson]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.nospam at removeme.free.fr> writes:
> Mark Jackson wrote:

> > Re. CamelCase and SmallTalk:  ISTR that the Alto keyboard lacked an
> > underscore character (I believe the character code was used for
> > left-arrow, which I vaguely recall was used for assignment in BCPL
> > and/or Mesa).  As constructions like foo_bar are the obvious
> > alternative to FooBar, could this lack have been a factor at PARC?
> > 
> 
> I don't know about the Alto keyboard (I've heard of alto saxophone, but 
> I guess this is OT ?-)

>From the tenor of your remarks I gather you may not be not familiar with

http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/highlights/alto.page

> but on a french keyboard, I have to type ctl + 
> alt + 8 for the underscore. Camel case notation only implies using the 
> shift key. GuessWhichOneHasMyPreference ?

I feel your pain, once having been faced with programming on an Intel
system on whose one terminal "backspace" was a shifted function.  Since
I don't type entirely without error. . . .

(To bring this full circle:  my solution was to use the Alto serial
interface and hook one up as a second terminal!)

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