Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!guido From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Case distinction in var names Message-ID: <6164@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 13:24:02 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.6164 Posted: Tue Nov 6 13:24:02 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 08:27:44 EST References: <4044@decwrl.UUCP> <9500013@iuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 15 Summary: In article <9500013@iuvax.UUCP> wagle@iuvax.UUCP writes: > Okay, now you go try to transport a 32,000 line program that spells the >same keyword/variable: > [...] >and go try to locate all occurrances with a low IQ editor. Don't try to offload the braindamage of your particular editor to the C standard. Write your own editor! (C was originally conceived only for writing editors. :-) -- Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam guido@mcvax.UUCP "The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct."