On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Brian Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:
> [is case-insensitivity really that important?]
> Well, it is to me, and I guess maybe some other people.
>
> 1. It's hard to talk out loud about case-sensitive language code.
It's interesting to contrast this with mathematics, where not only
case is used to distinguish between variables, but font as well. In
writing, it's considered bad form to start a sentence with a symbol,
so the case issue is avoided. For speaking, mathematicians are used
to having to write statements out for their audience.
Possibly as a result
Admittedly, we're discussing a programming language, but you did
bring up mathematics earlier....
Lynn
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