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"Paul Cager" <paul.cager@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:2e1f5478-2fe1-412e-8ce5-9bf889630017@e21g2000vbz.googlegroups.com...

>Wasn't Algol-68 font-sensitive? I seem to remember that reserved words
>were required by the language spec to be *bold*. Of course you
>couldn't do bold on punched cards so compilers had conventions such as
>using single quotes in place of boldened text.

That's right. In the Algol 68 jargon, the different conventions were known
as "stropping regimes".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol68#Program_representation