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Posted by Tony Marston on 08/09/06 09:45
"Mark A. Boyd" <mblist@sanDotrr.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns9819C73F142DCmblistssanDotrrcom@66.75.164.119...
> The august Jerry Stuckle posted August:
>
>> Tony Marston wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> I have told you several times. When most people read a word it has the
>>> same meaning regardless of case. To suddenly say that by simply
>>> changing the case of one letter you prodce a totally different word is
>>> confusing. Maintaining someone else's program where the same word is
>>> used in multiple places, but because of small differences in case it
>>> actually becomes a different word would be a nightmare to most people.
>>
>> Fine. Go teach English.
>
> [snip]
>
> And elsewhere today, Tony Marston wrote:
>
>>> That's just your opinion. I still firmly believe that most programmers
>>> would be confused if they encountered a word with the same spelling but
>>> different case which actually meant something totally different. This is
>>> not the case in any spoken language, nor is it the case most computer
>>> languages. It is confusing, it leads to obfuscated and unmaintainable
>>> code, therefore it is a bad thing. Period. End of story.
>
> There you go again. Please don't teach English. You might put another bad
> mark on our (U.S.) already poor educational system if you are expected to
> mark a paper by a student named Mark. It may never dawn on you (even in
> May) that Dawn wrote about Him not about him; that a lamp can help if
> installing a LAMP at night; that not all dinnerware in China is china;
> that
> a march need not be scheduled in March, etc., etc., etc.
>
> Tony, if you can't easily see the differences in the words used in the
> above paragraph - and understand that case changes their meaning to
> something totally different - then I don't think you'll ever be
> comfortable
> with case-sensitive programming languages. I *seriously* doubt that it
> confuses most programmers when working with written or programming
> languages. I didn't really think you had this trouble with the written
> language either, but now that you've reiterated your problem and called it
> the "End of story", I choose to believe you. Your inability to appreciate
> the differences determines the "good" or "bad" of it for you and only you.
>
> IMO obfuscated and unmaintainable code is written by programmers who are
> just learning, don't care, in a mad rush, or are doing so intentionally. I
> can't see where the case-sensitivity of a chosen programming language
> would
> be the cause. After all, one should know whether the language supports it
> or not.
Do you support the idea that the ability to create different functions with
the *same spelling* but *different case* is a good thing? Can you point to
any online resources which support this idea?
--
Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org
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