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- From: katz@quilty.stanford.EDU (Morry Katz)
- Subject: Case sensitivity
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:01:12 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 05:52:01 GMT
- From: Ozan Yigit <oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca>
- Organization: York U. Student Information Systems Project
-
- gls@think.COM (Guy Steele) writes:
-
- How about some arguments of the form, "Case [in]sensitivity is good/bad
- because of how it affects that person over there, or because of
- how it affects how well a group of programmers can work together"?
-
- Those are the type of arguments [and one can think up a slew of
- them] that require serious study, which appearently neither the
- language designers, nor the advocates on one side of the issues
- or the other, are willing to undertake. This is why one ends up
- with "historial reasons" or "religion". ;-)
-
- I suggest that you attend one of the Scheme Report meetings and
- observe the techincal discussions that take place at the forum before
- you impune our willingness to apply sreious study to the issues. Just
- because you may disagree with our point of view or because the people
- at those meetings have chosen not to type in the entire discussion on
- the net does not mean there has not been a serious, protracted, and
- well thought out discussion.
-
- It is in fact the case that "historical reasons" are viewed with great
- suspicion boardering on distain in that forum. Religion since it is
- basically a synonym for point of view used by those who disagree with
- ones position is impossible to get around. When individual
- fundamentally disagree on a point, it often is the case that this
- results from a fundamental difference in perspective that cannot be
- changed by pointing to any set of "facts" that their position
- contradicts.
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- Morry Katz
- katz@cs.stanford.edu
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