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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just Wondering
Message-ID: <10095@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Apr 89 00:17:27 GMT
References: <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <10088@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1126@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1126@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> raymond@ptolemy.UUCP (Eric A. Raymond) writes:
-In article <10088@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
->>    Why is C case-sensitive?
->It makes programs considerably more readable, and expands the available
->name space considerably.
-I think you confuse the ability to use both upper and lower case and
-the concpet of whether or not upper case characters are unique from
-lower case. (Translation: You can use upper and lower case in a
-non-case sensitive language. Hence by your metric, they are both
-readable.)

No, not having different cases map onto the same object DOES make
the code more readable.  Otherwise you would have to constantly be
mentally mapping what you were reading into monocase, in effect.