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I kind of disagree. Programming on a 6-bit (aka UPPERCASE only) platform is a legitimate pursuit. The K&R C programming language specifically permitted it, so to also PL/I, FORTRAN, COBOL... etc. There were and are still many legitimate CPU architectures that are intrinsically 6-bit, hence UPPERCASE.
 
:I agree that it should be deleted. This is an absurd requirement and is totally uninteresting code-wise (either the language is case-sensitive or it isn't) ... even in the unlikely event that you care about computercomputers with 6-bit words these days, you could always write a compiler that accepted ASCII or even Unicode source, loading it into multi-word encodings. (Or more likely you would just cross-compile, since you wouldn't want to actually do your work on a 6-bit machine nowadays.) [[User:Stevengj|— Steven G. Johnson]] ([[User talk:Stevengj|talk]]) 15:50, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 
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