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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just Wondering
Message-ID: <12481@lanl.gov>
Date: 22 Apr 89 04:09:46 GMT
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From article <17037@mimsy.UUCP>, by chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek):
> In article <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
> (Jeffrey Kuskin) writes:
>>    Why is C case-sensitive?
> BecAUSe peopLE arE CaSE senSITive, as YOU CAn noW see.

Ah, but do you intend to imply that "BecAUSe peopLE arE CaSE senSITive,
as YOU CAn noW see" has a different _MEANING_ from "Because people are
case sensitive, as you can now see?"  The fact is that most people are
_NOT_ case sensitive with respect to the _MEANINGS_ of the words.  So,
computer languages probably shouldn't let case effect the meaning either.