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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 679963734 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> <39E2D51E.D0122F20@bton.ac.uk> <8s0b78$2no$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 971229208 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:53:28 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:53:28 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <8s0b78$2no$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, wv12@my-deja.com writes: > Case sensitivity enforces consistency among code produced by different > programmmers. Imagine programmer A insists on writing runTimeeXception > and programmer B insits writing runtimeexcception. Maybe you yourself > on Monday decides to write runtimeException and on Tuesday, > RUNTIMEEXCEPTION. Now, that is sick. Well, if you can do anything > *useFUl* in Ada, you don't have to write it in Java. If you cannot get programmers to agree on style, you have a people problem that cannot be solved with technology. If somebody writes Runtime_Exception and someone else writes runtime_exception it is not the end of the world. >> Since humans consider 'D' and 'd' to be variant representations of >> the same letter, why shouldn't programming languages? >> > Human only invents ASCII where 'd' and 'D' has different values. I gather you never heard of baudot or programmed using a KSR 35 terminal. (two _different_ encoding schemes). > The way I see it, case insensitive languages just show they are aging. You seem to imply that "old is bad". I think you will find that in comp.lang.ada that is not a given and you have to prove it for any particular example.