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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: _Type vs no _Type
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:08:17 -0700
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On 11/4/2010 11:29 AM, Britt Snodgrass wrote:
> On Nov 4, 12:28 am, "Nasser M. Abbasi"<n...@12000.org>  wrote:
>>
>> That is one part of Ada I never liked, same for Fortran or any other
>> language which is not case sensitive.
>>
>

> The language design decision that Ada be case insensitive is something
> that I value very much.  In general, I think the "flexibility"
> provided by case sensitivity causes more problems (risks, bugs,
> reduced readability) than it potentially solves. I don't like case
> sensitivity in programming languages or in file system names.
>
> - Britt

I guess you would do not like Unix/Linux systems then (or even Apple, 
which uses Unix)?

I am the complete opposite, I like case sensitive languages, and like it 
also on file systems. I guess we will never be friends then :)

Sorry, but have a look at all the new languages and also at the list of 
most popular languages. They are almost all, if not all, case sensitive. 
There must be a good reason for this.

--Nasser