Posted by Tony Marston on 10/17/79 11:35

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Colin Fine wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>
>>> tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk wrote:
>>>
>>
>
> Nope. That's exactly where he is. The (old) languages he's used are not
> case sensitive, so no language should be.
>
> If that's not being "on the side of the past", what it?

I never said that NO language should be case-sensitive, I said that a
previously case-insensitive language should not be changed to being
case-sensitive for no good reason other than "to be consistent with all the
others". This is especially a BAD idea if the language then allows the SAME
variable or function name to me different things just because of a change in
case. As has already been stated by others, some languages are
case-sensitive, but they detect the wrong case when the variable or function
name is being typed in and auto correct it.

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