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Posted by Ivan Marsh on 07/27/06 15:30
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:13:29 +0100, Tony Marston wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:VZqdndIgAfB2OlXZnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Tony Marston wrote:
>>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>>> news:WYudnRl91u0MzVrZnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>> No I'm not. It is the other way around. All computer languages and
>>> operating systems were orginally case-insensitive. Windows is still
>>> case-nsensitive, as are all the Windows products. Then a few
>>> lame-brains thought that case sensitivity would be really "kewl" and
>>> they are now trying to enforce their pathetic ideas on everybody else.
Sorry to jump in the middle of this but... no they weren't.
C, the language that Windows was written in, is and has always been case
sensitive.
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