Case sensitive and ludicrous statements

[Douglas Alan]

mjackson at alumni.caltech.edu (Mark Jackson) writes:

> 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?

That sounds plausible.  I think I also remember using a computer at
some point that didn't have an underscore character.  It's hard to
come up with another explanation -- the Smalltalk folk where way too
smart to have done something that on the face of things is quite
silly.

|>oug