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Posted by Chung Leong on 11/28/34 11:54
Richard Levasseur wrote:
> Chung Leong wrote:
> > Richard Levasseur wrote:
> > > Part of why we have case sensitivity is because its much easier (and
> > > faster) to implement in a parser. It has little to do with programmer
> > > preference. However, it has grown into a feature most people want.
> >
> > But what about the children?
>
> In their case, we can be insensitive.
For their sake I think we should give up case sensitivity altogether.
Their impressionable minds shouldn't be expose to this crazy notion
that same-letter identifiers are as mutually distinguishable as
identifiers of different letter sequences. Having thisThing and
THISTHING in the same program is unnatural. It undermines the whole
institution of the alphabet.
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