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Posted by Tony Marston on 12/17/76 11:54
"Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
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>> In their case, we can be insensitive.
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> 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.
Exactly. What some people fail to realise is that keyboard input is slowly
giving way to voice input, so imagine the difficulty of not only saying a
word, but taking the time to identify the case of each individual letter. As
far as I am concerned the variable $foo is the same as $FOO is the same as
$Foo. Any language which deliberately allows these variations to exist as
separate entities is asking for trouble.
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Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org
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