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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
Message-ID: <17061@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 89 19:19:24 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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I have another answer.

If you ignore case, you are discarding information.  This is bad.  If
the programmer wants the information discarded, it% can do this itself:

	tr A-Z a-z < foo.c | /lib/cpp | /lib/ccom | /lib/c2 | as -o foo.o

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% Non-sexist non-animist pronoun.
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More seriously: I have used languages that ignore case, and languages
that care about case, and have never been particularly impressed with
the former, nor particularly excited about the case distinctions in the
latter.
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