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 I hope this isn't too far off topic.

I am wondering about the history of lower case letters
in programming languages, and especially about case
sensitive languages.

The first I know about is C.  Ones I knew before then
didn't allow then at all, though it might be that some DEC
compilers would ignore case.
[This is an interesting question.  The IBM 7030 Stretch had
an upper/lower case character set, although I don't know how
much software used it.  Algol60 was specified in lower case
but most implementations were upper case only.  I can't think
of a language before C that was actually implemented in lower
case but I wouldn't count on it being the first.  -John]

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lower case gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-11-10 12:57 -0800
  Re: lower case Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2022-11-12 01:12 +0000
    Re: lower case gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-11-12 11:01 -0800
      Re: lower case gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-11-13 16:30 -0800

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