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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
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In article <0egDa.45243$fT5.9340@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> James Rogers wrote:
>> In English the meaning of words does not change because of case.
> 
> That is not true, since English encompasses proper nouns.
> The words "Polish" and "polish" are quite different. Also,
> written English, especially technical writing, can include
> capitalized acronyms which mean something different than
> the equivalent lower case word. And do I have to remind
> you how often people on this newsgroup complain when they
> see someone refer to ADA instead of Ada?

But those complaints are stylistic, not because there was a lack of
understanding of what is meant.  Local rules about capitalization
can be applied, just as local rules about indenting or local rules
about the positioning, style or presence(!) of comments.  None of
these affect the correctness of the program, and the manner in which
they affect the maintainability of the program is a matter for local
decisionmaking.