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Posted by Wayne on 12/22/05 12:29
On 22 Dec 2005 01:21:40 -0800, tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk wrote:
>> Ask Dennis Ritchie.
>
>No, I'm asking you. What problem existed in the case-insensitive world
>that could ONLY be solved by introducing case-sensitivity?
Many many years ago it was done for compiler performance reasons. It
does require lots of extra cycles to lower-case every single
identifier in a large C application.
Might seem like a poor reason now, but as a COBOL/Mainframe programmer
should appreciate it -- It was only 2 extra bytes to store the entire
year but somebody decided that was too much.
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