Why is so much of COBOL in uppercase

sararaju · New User Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 26

Why is so much of COBOL in uppercase?

maverick05 · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: cobol caps

Convention boss

priya · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 10:40 pm Post subject:

ajay_dheepak · New User Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Chennai

maverick05,

Try coding a COBOL program in all lower-case. You wont find any error. Its not a Convention

superk

Also, for a long time many printers only printed in upper-case characters.

priya

I accept with you superk.

ANSI-68 COBOL introduced a facility to type in Small Letters also.

But Small letters are not in COBOL character set yet now.

So if you type in small letter, it's treated as the equivalent capital letter ASCII code by the COBOL compiler.

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1508

The real reason was that the printers and the other equipment of the time made so much noise that the developers had to SHOUT.

nave · Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject:

but cobol is not case sensitive.