Re: case sensitivity

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From: Kasper Osterbye
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1988 08:22

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In article <2318@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Just an opinion:  case sensitivity in a programming language is not in
>itself a bad thing.  It is how it is used that can cause problems.
> --> [Arguments]
>Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi

I disagree. Case sensitivity is always a drag. Someone always will use
the TWO variables i and I, and I will get quite confused. I like a language
to treat WriteString as the same identifier as writestring, but I like
that I can write it both ways.

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From: kasper@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
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Date: 11 Mar 88 08:22:55 GMT
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