Thursday, June 01, 2006

Why Caps ?

"Case-sensitive" is a term you can not hide from if you do software. Having taken this for granted for 25-26 years of my existence, just wondering today what might have the wise English folks been thinking when they decided to have upper case and lower case? Would'nt the world be simpler with just one case? Like as in Hindi (devnagari to be preicse). Maybe some linguist would know better.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe the english language isnt as expressive as the traditional ones we have at home and to stress the importance of something you just have to use Caps

--r

A said...

for a moment there i thought you meant like mid caps!

A said...

unlike ee cummings kind of stuff...

and yes,it was a canon photo stitch thing, so what camera do you use...?

A said...
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