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Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages
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lugnet.publish
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Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:36:22 GMT
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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 04:46:31 GMT, "Earls HouseHold"
<brandone@mounet.com> wrote:
> know what Case was and cost to much to fix ( well it ain't broke! AND YOU
> WANT TO SPENT HOW MUCH TO FIX IT??!! ). Those older languages became case
Oh yes it's broke (.... because I just changed some chars into caps
randomly, but we don't need to tell the boss that, right?)
> Have you ever wondered why C command are so short and cryptic. Lack of
> usable character space in the file name system for one. Another, you save 7
And second because people don't want to take the time to type in:
Print_A_Line_To_The_Screen ("Hello World"); instead of a nice & short
println ("Hello World");
most modern C programs usually have very descriptive names for
high-level functions, which are only called once or twice, and
gradually shorter names for functions which are called over and over
again.
Jasper
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| While the discussion to Case or not to Case is very interesting and I hope it continues, I would like inject something at this point. A bit of history if you will. Way back when ( Mr. Peabody please set the Wayback Machine for the cusp between main (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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