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   On 01 Jan 2024 at 12:06:22 GMT, "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"    
   wrote:   
      
   > On 1 Jan 2024 10:31:05 GMT   
   > TimS  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 01 Jan 2024 at 05:45:08 GMT, "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>     It was so that the set of keywords in the language could be   
   >>> extended without any risk of them ever being mistaken for variables. The   
   >>> idea was that keywords were picked out by "stropping" them either by   
   >>> CASE or with 'quotes' or by typeface (bold usually) instead of there   
   >>> being a set of keywords that could not be used as variable names.   
   >>   
   >> Yebbut that was never going to work, given the technology of the day. I   
   >> think I wrote one program in it and didn't bother after that.   
   >   
   >     But it *did* work - you could even type the code stropped with   
   > quotes or UPPER CASE and print it stropped with bold face or italic.   
      
   Not on standard line printers of the day which IIRC didn't even have lower   
   case. And the quotes were just a pain.   
      
   --   
   Tim   
      
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