Case sensitivity

[Alex Martelli]

Terry Reedy wrote:


> "Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:65cli-31d.ln1 at beastie.ix.netcom.com...
>>         FORTRAN (at least up to and including F77) not only doesn't
> care about
>> case, it doesn't even care about white space
> 
> I have this strange memory that IBM punch cards and line printers (at
> least some) were uppercase only.  Perhaps, after 30 years, I am
> confusing them with something else (like other systems with 6-bit
> bytes).

Some card punchers (as opposed to, the punch cards themselves)
and other peripherals were indeed uppercase-only, and that
included equipment manufactured by IBM.  That doesn't mean
the Fortran compiler should or would care about case, though.


Alex