Posted by Wayne on 10/16/96 11:35

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:09:24 +0000, Colin Fine
<news@kindness.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>WHY IS IT PROGRESS?????
>
>PHP5 is a vast improvement on PHP4 in a number of ways. But they could
>equally well have resolved the inconsistency between variable and
>function names by removing case sensitivity for the former.

I'd say that adding case-sensitivity breaks less code than removing
case-sensitivity would. Adding case-sensitivity in PHP might create a
alot of hard errors (calling functions with the wrong case, for
example) but it will never go silently. Removing case-sensitivity
from variables can easily create situations where you silently end up
with incorrect results.

>You've chosen four popular languages and said, look they're popular.
>What about the hundreds of language you've never heard of. I have no
>doubt some of them had considerable merit.

Any languages that have features of significant merit eventually get
incorporated into popular languages. HaskellDB is being incorporated
into C# in the form of LINQ. Very soon millions of programmers will
use a powerful feature of Haskell yet only a few thousand will ever
even know where it came from.

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