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Posted by Anonymous on 10/14/95 11:35
Tony Marston wrote:
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> Case-sensitivity is the whole point of this thread. Any language that has a
> feature which can be abused and which produces unmaintainable code is a BAD
> language. Any language that allows the same variable or function name to
Then any language is bad by your definition.
> exist in different combinations of upper and lower case, and to give a
> different meaning to each of those combinations, is a BAD language. Case is
> irrelevant in all human languages, so it should be irrelevant in all
> computer languages.
That's not true. Anyone proficient in german can assure you that "Helft
den armen Vögeln." and "Helft den Armen vögeln." means something
*completely* different! ;-)
> Why do most modern languages exclude the GOTO statement? Because it is
> considered BAD.
Do they? The last time I checked all modern languages get translated to
machine code at compile time and all machine languages I know have an
equivalent to GOTO, which is usually called JMP in Assembler.
Bye!
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