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Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages
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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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  Re: Case-sensitivity in programming languages
 
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 (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)

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