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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
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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.
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