Re: Sunday Dinner Feb 2

On 2025-02-05, fos@sdf.org <fos@sdf.org> wrote:

On 2025-02-05, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:

fos@sdf.org wrote:

On 2025-02-03, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

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(BTW, are you related to songbird?  What's up with
not using capital letters?)

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not related to songbird lol. i don't why i do this. it became
habit here on Usenet in the late 90s.

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  yes, that's the same for me.  :)  i started posting to usenet
in the mid-80s, but i'd been reading usenet even before the
great ranaming.  the other day i spent some time seeing if i
could find something i wrote a long time ago that i really
liked and thought i had saved...

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yet...
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i do cnc machining for a living. the vast majority of the
programming is done with cad/cam systems and millions of lines of
plain text machine code is a mouse click away.
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i do write a few hundred lines of code manually nearly every
day. that, i do in all caps. some machine controllers will run
code written in lowercase, others will choke on it. all run
uppercase. i find find it easier to read the mix of letters and
numbers when the letters are uppercase. other people vary on
this.
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for me;
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N100 G90 G00 G40 G49 G80 G17 G20 (SAFE BLOCK)
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is a helluva lot easier to read than;
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n100 g90 g00 g40 g49 g80 g17 g20 (safe block)

It's the opposite for me.  I get a lot easier recognition
of the lowercase letters.

--
Cindy Hamilton