Re: Three simple questions

[David Gillon <david.gillon@baesystems.com>]

wv12@my-deja.com wrote:

> Case sensitivity enforces consistency among code produced by different
> programmmers. Imagine programmer A insists on writing runTimeeXception
> and programmer B insits writing runtimeexcception. Maybe you  yourself
> on Monday decides to write runtimeException and on Tuesday,
> RUNTIMEEXCEPTION. Now, that is sick. 

Your naming scheme should be consistent, explicit and mandatory within
at least the current project, but the undeniable fact is that
programmers are human and error prone, and that a case insensitive
language is less susceptible to problems caused by finger-fumbles. With
Ada's pronounced slant towards safety critical applications any
opportunity to remove a potential error source has to be a point in its
favour.

>Well, if you can do anything *useFUl* in Ada, you don't have to write it in Java.

When (if?) Java grows up and starts dealing with safety critical
applications, case sensistivity may well be something it wants to adopt
from the more mature and widely used Ada ;)

> The way I see it, case insensitive languages just show they are aging.

YAATAICMFP...

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David Gillon