Re: Why not combine Ada and C++?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Case sensitivity is one of those debates that is never going to be settled
simply because people have their own irrational preferences and there are
plusses and minuses on either side to justify them. The case sensitivity
issue has been argued here many times before.

Personally, I like case insensitivity since the meaning of a word is not
(generally) changed by the character case in which it is represented. Hence,
to introduce case sensitivity would be to make it far easier to make stupid
errors in coding or in reading of code. Something like "This_Object" versus
"This_object" could far too easily be tripped over in code. (Fortunately,
the compiler would complain if one tried to declare two such objects in the
same scope, but with case sensitivity, someone could easily get away with
it.)

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"Stephen Cole" <s_k_cole@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk...
> I think the idea is a good one. I don't like the caselessness of Ada
either.
> It makes feel MSDOSish rather than a modern language. Why is caselessness
> still concidered important in this day and age when memory is so cheap.
Ada
> seems to suffer from rules that seem to be relevant to implementation
> difficulties rather than giving the programmer a consistent/simple view of
> the program implementation space. But I am just a beginner in Ada so maybe
I
> am wrong. But I don't think so.