From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-10 21:39:28 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!europa.netcrusader.net!205.252.116.205!howland.erols.net!nntp.flash.net!news.flash.net!not-for-mail From: "Ken Garlington" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: <%9SE5.1188$ln6.160786@news.flash.net> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 04:39:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.215.83.104 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 971239163 216.215.83.104 (Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:39:23 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:39:23 CDT Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1147 Date: 2000-10-11T04:39:23+00:00 List-Id: "Frank Christiny" wrote in message news:FF7E28B976F0121D.F97167433B3E2BF3.4FD17582438B6D33@lp.airnews.net... > Not being a partisan of case-sensitivity I can nevertheless > assert that, first of all, Humans DO care for case sensitivity, > otherwise why have case-sensitivity in the grammar to begin with? as a counter-example, the human e e cummings didn't care for case sensitivity, yet seemed to communicate reasonably well. as a second counter-example, unix is case-sensitive... yet only lower-case seems to be used for most commands, file names, etc... (still contemplating Bank and bank...)