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sedatk
9 months ago
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Niklaus Wirth has died
…also if he hadn’t insisted on uppercase keywords.
pjmlp
9 months ago
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That wasn't the issue many make it up to be, thanks to programmer editors.
We already had autoformatting tools in the early 1990's, Go did not invent them.
sedatk
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But we also had syntax highlighting in the early 90's, so, using uppercase to denote language elements was already an archaic approach that hurt readability.
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