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Posted by Gordon Burditt on 12/23/05 01:33
>> >> For God's sake WHY! What problem existed in the
>> >> case-insensitive world that needed to be fixed?
From my point of view, the case-sensitive world existed
first.
>> > 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?
What problem existed in the case-sensitive world that could only be
solved by introducing case-insensitivity?
>I don't know, and don't really care. It's a pretty pointless
>discussion. Languages that are case sensitive are not going to change
>because a minority of programmers dislikes that feature.
Ok, here's one problem that case-insensitivity has that case-sensitivity
doesn't: determine whether or not two characters are the same
(except possibly for case) for all characters in ISO 10646, on a
machine with a 64k address space. Do all countries even AGREE on
what character codes correspond to 'a' except for case? It would
be VERY BAD for two variable names to represent the same variable
in some countries and not in others. How often will it be necessary
for this software to be updated? (Of course, C wimps out on this
by not allowing most of those characters in variable names anyway.)
Gordon L. Burditt
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