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by justaguy37 1638 days ago
can we just say no to capital letters? (or lowercase?)

do capital letters have a good enough usage case to justify their continued existence?

2 comments

You are free to stop using capital letters, but good luck getting everyone to go along. Capitals have been around for centuries (they’re older than the printing press) and aren’t going anywhere.
The lower-case letters in Greek/Latin/Cyrillic are the new additions, initially we only had what is now called upper-case.
Fun fact: The Apple Ⅱ and Ⅱ+ originally only did upper-case, and it was very popular to add a Shift Key / lower-case mod via one of the gamepad buttons: https://web.archive.org/web/20010212094858/http://home.swbel...