Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/26/06 02:47

ImOk wrote:
> I just read a thread about this and I thought I would just add my
> 2cents why this situation exists.
>
> In the stone age days, keyboards did not have lowercase. So everything
> was typed in uppercase. No one bitched about it. Now with upper and
> lower case keyboards people bitch and curse. Including myself. But I
> live with it.
>
> The main reason why we have case sensitivity in programming languages
> goes back to the start of cave man days of language development:
> Compilation and interpretation performance. A compiler does not have to
> convert symbols to upper case or lower case or whatever. Also, only one
> way to have a symbol table in memory. This reasoning goes back to the
> days of slow CPU's and low memory. Today, one could argue otherwise.
>
> Same thing for many of the OSes of the world.
>
> So, they didn't force case sensitivity on us out of concern of the
> English language (Only Smalltalk cares about this in a serious manner).
> After all look at the crappy function names in maney languages
> including C and PHP.
>
> There are many things that we are stuck with for historical reasons
> that dont make sense today. But these days with autocompletion it
> shouldn't be much of an issue. Provided you are not using NoTePaD.
> Although I dislike VB for other reasons it does it it best. If you
> declare a variable, it will go through and fix it everywhere the same
> way. No questions asked.
>
> Ok, sorry about my rant.
>

This has been hashed and rehashed ad nauseum in this group. If you want
to read about it, check Google Groups.

Please let it drop. It's not going to change anything - or anyone's mind.


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