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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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 From: David Gillon Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/11 Message-ID: <39E44AD6.E282CF19@baesystems.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 680097420 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> <39E2D51E.D0122F20@bton.ac.uk> <8s0b78$2no$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 11 Oct 2000 12:07:06 GMT, rc3284.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com Organization: BAE SYSTEMS Avionics (Rochester) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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... -- David Gillon