[Info-vax] Raxco VMS Tuning Seminar Notes

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/8/2010 10:48 AM, JF Mezei wrote:
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> Once?  That's typical Jersey-speak!  It makes my ears bleed to hear it
>> and I don't care who it is that's said it, I make an effort to correct
>> it.
>
> Early cobol requires the code be all uppercase and that lines start at
> specific columns within a line. Later versio of cobol (such as DEC's)
> allowed the use of the TAB character, allowed uppercase and lowercase
> and was much mroe flexible in terms of where characters started within a
> line.
>
>
> Perhaps the same is happening to languages where there is more
> flexibility in its use as long as peoople continue to be able to parse
> and understand the language.

Peoople????  You need to put on your glasses and/or turn on your 
spelling checker!

And you too, JF.  "versio", "mroe"??????

L.E. Modessit pointed out that languages change.  "To discriminate" used 
to mean "sorting out the good from the bad".  In the last sixty or 
seventy years it has come to mean sorting the whites from the negroes.