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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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 13:37:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The caselessness is one of the things I like best! Date: 15 Oct 2001 19:04:00 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9qfbv0$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5435.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14594 Date: 2001-10-15T19:04:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:01:17 +0200, Gerhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= wrote: > Natural written language is case sensitive (in the few languages I know, > maybe Hebrew isn't). Only the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts (and to a limited sense Georgian) have cases. Even in those scripts, I read English text that is all uppercase or all lowercase all the time without problem; that is, case rarely carries important meaning in English. > You don't mix capitalisation in your mathematic works, right? n or |N, > that matters. Programming languages are just a special form of maths, > anyway. You want APL, then. For most other languages, mathematical form is left behind in a lot of places for the purpose of clarity. This is a feature, not a bug. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less." - "Disciple", Stuart Davis