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: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-05 10:30:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-out.newsfeeds.com!propagator2-maxim!news-in.superfeed.net!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Larry Hazel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:30:19 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.32.41 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 1054834210 66.0.32.41 (Thu, 05 Jun 2003 13:30:10 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 13:30:10 EDT Organization: 24hoursupport.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38706 Date: 2003-06-05T12:30:19-05:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > My experience with XML, which is case sensitive, has convinced me that case > sensitivity is one of the worst possible changes for Ada. The case > sensitivity of XML has caused me to waste very large amounts of time. Bill > Gates' one major contribution to software engineering was that he made DOS > case insensitive. I believe that one of the major problems with the POSIX > family of operating systems is case sensitivity. Case sensitivity is > definitely a significant contributor to user hostility. > Bob Leif > pragma (Case Sensitive) ... ... ... pragma (Case Insensitive) Maybe 2 or 3 programmers would ever use it, but everybody would be happy. Larry