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Posted by Tony Marston on 07/28/06 08:18
"Ivan Marsh" <annoyed@you.now> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.07.27.15.30.31.757191@you.now...
> 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.
The Windows OS is, and has always been, case-insensitive. So have all the
tools such as Word, Notepad, etc.
All the operating systems and languages which I used before Personal
Computers and Windows existed, such as mainframes and mini-computers, were
all case-insensitive. Just because one particular language enforced
case-sensitivity should not mean that it now has to be enforced on every
language and every operating system.
--
Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org
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