From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Subject: Case sensitivity [was Re: type names (was Re: Child package: private type and IO)]
Date: 1998/03/05
Date: 1998-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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On Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:19:20 -0800, "John G. Volan"
<johnv@ac3i.dseg.ti.com> wrote:
> ...
> package and a type, so there are fewer things to name. (2) Other
> languages tend to be case-sensitive, so capitalization is available as a
> mechanism for "marking". For instance, instead of having to say:
> ...
Let's see, I've used
FORTRAN
COBOL
APL
Pascal
BASIC
Databus
MOBOL-2
Several assemblers
C
LISP
SNOBOL
Ada
How many of these are case sensitive? One. So my experience is that
"other languages" (than Ada) tend not to be case sensitive.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-14 0:00 Child package: private type and IO johnjohn
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-02-17 0:00 ` sparre
1998-02-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-01 0:00 ` type names (was Re: Child package: private type and IO) Ray Blaak
1998-03-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-03-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1998-03-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-03-04 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Anonymous [this message]
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Case sensitivity [was Re: type names (was Re: Child package: private type and IO)] John G. Volan
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