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   On 1 Jan 2024 14:22:36 GMT   
   TimS  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   	No on those it would have to print quote stropping, even if it was   
   typed in with case or bold stropping on some fancy terminal.   
      
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