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Posted by Tony Marston on 12/27/05 12:23
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Tony Marston wrote:
>> "Anonymous" <anonymous@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:43AE8ECF.54D24C7C@nowhere.invalid...
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>>>Tony Marston wrote:
>>>
>>>>Case-sensitivity is the whole point of this thread. Any language that
>>>>has a
>>>>feature which can be abused and which produces unmaintainable code is a
>>>>BAD
>>>>language. Any language that allows the same variable or function name to
>>>
>>>Then any language is bad by your definition.
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>>
>> Any language that allows stupid mistakes is a bad language. That's why
>> some programmers say that statically-typed and compiled languages are
>> better that dynamically-typed interpretted languages.
>>
>>
>>>That's not true. Anyone proficient in german can assure you that "Helft
>>>den armen Vφgeln." and "Helft den Armen vφgeln." means something
>>>*completely* different! ;-)
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>>
>> Trust the bloody square-head sausage-eaters to throw a spanner in the
>> works. But in ENGLISH, which is the universal language, there is no
>> difference. Just check out any dictionary. Does it have separate entries
>> in each case? No? I wonder why.....
>>
>>
>
> Gee, another American who thinks he's the center of the universe...
No, I'm English, not American. And there was a time when we WERE the center
of the universe. That's why English is the universal language.
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