Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: case sensitivity
Message-ID: <1989Apr21.194615.5344@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 89 19:46:15 GMT

In article <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin) writes:
>    Why is C case-sensitive? ...

Why not?  The real question is why things should be case-*in*sensitive.
Uppercase and lowercase are different in appearance and in English usage;
why should they be synonymous in a programming language?
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