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Article #5334Re: case sensitivity
From: Chris Torek
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 00:19
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 00:19
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In article <2758@csli.STANFORD.EDU> kasper@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye) writes: >Case sensitivity is always a drag. NATUraLLy, since as yOU CAn see bY ReADINg this, peoPLe aRE nOT CAse seNsiTIve thEMSelVEs. That (unless you read it on an uppercase-only system) should make it clear that people ARE case-sensitive to some degree. Since I am case sensitive, it has never bothered me that many of the languages I use are case sensitive as well. To be fair, it has never bothered me that some are case insensitive. What DOES bother me is languages that constantly force me to shift cases: FOR primecand := 1 TO max DO BEGIN IF is_prime(primecand) THEN op1(primecand) ELSE op2(primecand); ... All this does is add noise, much like my first paragraph above. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: case sensitivity Message-ID: <10742@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 21 Mar 88 00:19:52 GMT References: <2318@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2758@csli.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 22