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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/26/06 11:22
Tony Marston wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:Kb6dnRCvKMxASlvZnZ2dnUVZ_uudnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
>>ImOk wrote:
>>
>>>I just read a thread about this and I thought I would just add my
>>>2cents why this situation exists.
>>>
>>>In the stone age days, keyboards did not have lowercase. So everything
>>>was typed in uppercase. No one bitched about it. Now with upper and
>>>lower case keyboards people bitch and curse. Including myself. But I
>>>live with it.
>>>
>>>The main reason why we have case sensitivity in programming languages
>>>goes back to the start of cave man days of language development:
>>>Compilation and interpretation performance. A compiler does not have to
>>>convert symbols to upper case or lower case or whatever. Also, only one
>>>way to have a symbol table in memory. This reasoning goes back to the
>>>days of slow CPU's and low memory. Today, one could argue otherwise.
>>>
>>>Same thing for many of the OSes of the world.
>>>
>>>So, they didn't force case sensitivity on us out of concern of the
>>>English language (Only Smalltalk cares about this in a serious manner).
>>>After all look at the crappy function names in maney languages
>>>including C and PHP.
>>>
>>>There are many things that we are stuck with for historical reasons
>>>that dont make sense today. But these days with autocompletion it
>>>shouldn't be much of an issue. Provided you are not using NoTePaD.
>>>Although I dislike VB for other reasons it does it it best. If you
>>>declare a variable, it will go through and fix it everywhere the same
>>>way. No questions asked.
>>>
>>>Ok, sorry about my rant.
>>>
>>
>>This has been hashed and rehashed ad nauseum in this group. If you want
>>to read about it, check Google Groups.
>>
>>Please let it drop. It's not going to change anything - or anyone's mind.
>
>
> This is a typical instance of a small number of small minded coders trying
> to enforce their idea of what is "pure" on everybody. The whole idea sucks
> big time.
>
Agreed. You are trying to enforce your ideas on everybody.
And your position does suck.
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