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From: "Sergey Koshcheyev" <serko84@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
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"Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
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> FWIW I've worked in environments that used case-sensitive languages, and a
> large proportion of the bugs I've fixed in my whole life were the result
> of people using identifiers with the wrong case.  (Second in number only
> to use of global variables in elegant disdain for the fact that other
> procedures were also using them.)

OK, I don't have much practical experience, so I can't argue with that (I
thought that these bugs would not be that common). So, probably, the Ada
designers did the right thing.

I just hate it when I can't use "At", "For" or "In", because they're
reserved.

Sergey.