What no Amiga E?!?

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by meynaf

No big deal if it's converted automatically (i.e. it allows you to type lowercase).

Thank goodness.

Originally Posted by idrougge

What's horrible about that?

All caps is horrible to type and read.

[idrougge]

Horrible to type? Not if you use a proper editor.

Hard to read? It's the same thing as coloured syntax highlighting in modern editors, alas that wasn't an option when E was created.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by idrougge

Horrible to type? Not if you use a proper editor.

And what editor would that be?

Originally Posted by idrougge

Hard to read?

It's not hard to read, it's ugly.

[idrougge]

Don't you have a language-sensitive editor on your Amiga? TurboText has modes for all kinds of languages.

[meynaf]

If Amiga E has no integrated editor performing the conversion and requires to type things in caps, then i'll join Thorham - it's horrible.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by idrougge

Don't you have a language-sensitive editor on your Amiga? TurboText has modes for all kinds of languages.

Uppercase keywords is a terrible design choice. That you can remedy this with external software doesn't change that.

[idrougge]

I think what you're trying to say is that case-sensitive keywords is a horrible design choice.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by idrougge

I think what you're trying to say is that case-sensitive keywords is a horrible design choice.

Perhaps that's a better way of saying it (case sensitivity in general is fine, of course).

[Meshuggah]

I really didn't mind the caps back in the day, you get used to it. I remember converting quite a bit of E to C in the late 90's, porting my stuff to Djgpp under DOS. Good times