Re: Spell checking identifiers

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> You might not want J1 and J_one in the same program.

Similarly, some ancient compiler (Euclid?) had case-insensitive lookup, but
required the same capitalization everywhere

This was much more important in the days of batch systems, where compilers
tried to "correct" your code, because it would be a day before you got
another chance. And because student programs couldn't do any damage.

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