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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 16:12:30 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!zur.uu.net!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: Modern languages are case sensitive? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3BCB6915.1886F314@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <3105e154.0110150021.32ff5426@posting.google.com> <9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <3BCB2E0B.5D7894CD@boeing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:54:13 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14619 Date: 2001-10-15T22:54:13+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > In article <3BCB2E0B.5D7894CD@boeing.com>, Jeffrey Carter writes: > > > > Well designed, modern languages (Ada) and operating systems (sorry, > > there aren't any) are case insensitive. 30-year-old, poorly designed > > languages (C) and operating systems (UNIX) are case sensitive. > > Well, VMS is only 23 years old, and it is case insensitive ! VMS has many good features, but I hesitate to call it modern. -- Jeffrey Carter