Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!jskuskin
From: jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Just Wondering
Message-ID: <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 21 Apr 89 03:46:42 GMT
Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU
Reply-To: jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin)
Distribution: na
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lines: 12

A "I was just wondering" question:

    Why is C case-sensitive?  I suppose it allows the
lexical analyzer in a C compiler to be a bit faster,
but certainly not much faster.  UNIX itself is
case-sensitive, of course, but certainly C need not be.

    So...why?

 -- Jeff Kuskin, Dartmouth College

EMAIL:  jskuskin@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU