Posted by Tony Marston on 07/27/06 08:04

"ImOk" <jon.macaroni@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1153959111.694621.115960@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Let me clarify my position. I am not taking a position. I was just
> simply stating why many languages are case sensitive. The fact that
> it's to force the programmer to write English prose is just BS
> secondary thinking. The real reason, it's more efficient to parse.

I started on mainframe COBOL in the70s, and due to the limited character set
there was no lower case. When I moved to mini-computers (Data General,
Hewlett Packard) in the 80s they allowed both upper and lower case but NEVER
introduced case-sensitivity. It was possible to write COBOL and JCL in
either case and the computer didn't care. This proves that case-sensitivity
was not introduced on grounds of "efficiency" as the computer could
automatically convert everything to the same case with no loss in
performance.

Having case-sensitive software causes more problems that it solves,
therefore it is EVIL!

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Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

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