Posted by Tony Marston on 07/27/06 07:58

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Tony Marston wrote:
>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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>>
>>>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.
>>
>>
>> This is a typical instance of a small number of small minded coders
>> trying to enforce their idea of what is "pure" on everybody. The whole
>> idea sucks big time.
>>
>
> Agreed. You are trying to enforce your ideas on everybody.

No I'm not. It is the other way around. All computer languages and operating
systems were orginally case-insensitive. Windows is still case-nsensitive,
as are all the Windows products. Then a few lame-brains thought that case
sensitivity would be really "kewl" and they are now trying to enforce their
pathetic ideas on everybody else.

> And your position does suck.

That's just your opinion, and I have no respect for your opinion.

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Tony Marston
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