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A project I've just started involves an enormous number
of C files, many of which were translated from FORTRAN
and are now being translated into C++ (don't ask). One of them
starts off like this:

	THIS SOFTWARE FITS THE DESCRIPTION IN THE U.S. COPYRIGHT ACT OF A
	"UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WORK".  IT WAS WRITTEN AS A PART OF THE
	AUTHOR'S OFFICIAL DUTIES AS A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE.  THIS MEANS IT
	CANNOT BE COPYRIGHTED.  THIS SOFTWARE IS FREELY AVAILABLE TO THE
	PUBLIC FOR USE WITHOUT A COPYRIGHT NOTICE, AND THERE ARE False
	RESTRICTIONS ON ITS USE, NOW OR SUBSEQUENTLY.

If these people followed my convention of putting all #defines
in all upper case I would never have figured out what happened.

Kate

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