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From: Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: _Type vs no _Type
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On Nov 4, 2:08=A0pm, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> wrote:
> I guess you would do not like Unix/Linux systems then (or even Apple,
> which uses Unix)?

I don't like case sensitivity on Unix/Linux file systems, but at least
they got the separator slash direction right ("/", not "\").

>
> I am the complete opposite, I like case sensitive languages, and like it
> also on file systems. I guess we will never be friends then :)

In a better world, we would only have small issues like this to
debate :)

>
> Sorry, but have a look at all the new languages and also at the list of
> most popular languages. They are almost all, if not all, case sensitive.
> There must be a good reason for this.

I attribute most of that to "must be like C" inertia, rather than on
any well thought out reason. Same for the widespread use of curly
braces instead of more readable begin/end pairs.

- Britt