Case-sensitivity: why -- or why not? (was Re: Damnation!)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <m2aehehfcg.fsf at netmeg.net>,
Les Schaffer  <godzilla at netmeg.net> wrote:
>
>i can only venture a guess as to why things are headed this
>way. Everyone who codes smells money, IPO money. So they figure if they
>can twiddle their language to meet the masses, the unwashed masses who
>can't learn case-sensitivity, OR SO THE EXPERTS TELL US, then there is
>a fortune to be made.
>
>Absurd notion, right?

Yes, it *is* an absurd notion.  And a rather pejorative one, to boot.
Perhaps you should consider an apology?
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