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- From: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert)
- Subject: Re: Opinions on case sensitivity in programming languages?
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Constance
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:31:42 GMT
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- tswingle@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tom Swingle) writes:
- ..
- >1. Do you prefer programming in a language which is case-sensitive or case-
- >insensitive (or does it even make a difference to you), and why?
-
- Depends on what I want to do: For a typesetting language (i.e. (Ams)(La)TeX)
- it seems natural to be case sensitive (as TeX is) because the text to typeset
- is case sensitive anyway. For programming, I would slightly prefer case
- insensitive languages so that you may use Capitals for making names easier to
- read/understand (TResourceCollection.CopyFrom, ...) but use as you want when
- fasttyping a test program.
-
- >2. How significant an issue is case-sensitivity in your preference toward one
- >language over another?
-
- Not very.
-
- >3. Since this article is posted to the C and Pascal newsgroups, here is a
- >question for the respective users of each language: To the C programmers, do
- >you feel that you would like C better if it were case-insensitive; and to the
- >Pascal programmers, do you feel that you would like it better with case
- >sensitivity? [..]
-
- I (pascal user) like it more as it is but could also live with it anyway.
-
- >4. If you were designing a language, would you make it case-sensitive, case-
- >insensitive, or maybe even allow for an option to go either way. [..]
-
- As stated above, I would make a typesetting language case sensitive, a
- general programming language (like C, Pascal, or Mathematica) case
- insensitive. BTW I can live with and use Mma. being case sensitive.
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