Posted by Wayne on 10/16/00 11:35

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:03:27 +0000, Colin Fine
<news@kindness.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>You may well be right that it will become increasingly difficult to find
>systems that aren't case insensitive. But I've yet to hear a reason why
>this is to be welcomed, while I do know a couple of reasons not to
>welcome it.

Case-sensitive begets case-sensitive. If you have a case-sensitive
file system, that tends to bleed over to case-sensitive language
identifiers. Once you have one langauge that's case-sensitive (like
C) other languages need to interface with that language.

If all programming languages existed in a vacuum, then you could
pretty much do whatever you want. But in reality, everything has to
work with everything else and really only the languages that play nice
in the overall world succeed. PHP became popular originally because
it leveraged many existing C libraries.

I'm not sure it matters anymore which choice is better -- it's simply
a matter of which ever is more common. Betamax vs. VHS.

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