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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/13
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Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> writes:
[...]
> Ada is not case-sensitive because case-sensitivity is a bad idea. In
> normal English usage, there is no significant difference between "Marin"
> or "MARIN" or mArIn".

The first is your name, the second is your name shouted, and the third
is your name in a ransom note.

And then of course there's "polish" vs. "Polish".

8-)}

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