Case Sensitivity and Learnability

[Dirk Heise]

Will Rose <cwr at crash.cts.com> schrieb im Beitrag <86u4uf$26lq$1 at thoth.cts.com>...
[...]
> Your arguments are reasonable, but they are arguments against systems
> which are both case-insensitive _and_ case-preserving.  The trouble with
> CI/CP is that the compiler sees a different set of tokens from those seen
> by the programmer, and it's sometimes difficult for the programmer to
> realise this.  If unskilled programmers find case too difficult or
> distracting, the cure is to force a single case, either upper or lower. 
> This could be done by an (optional?) compiler switch.

PLEASE DON'T THINK I'M SHOUTING. I'M JUST NOSTALGIC AND
I WANT MY C64 BACK.

DIRK.

("TEACHER, WHY IS MY PROGRAM ALL BIG LETTERS?"
"YOU'D BE TOO DUMB TOO READ IT OTHERWISE.")