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

Will Rose cwr at crash.cts.com
Sun May 28 18:22:42 EDT 2000 
Thomas Malik <340083143317-0001 at t-online.de> wrote:
[...]
: 6. Any wide-spread computer language in use today uses case-sensitive
: identifiers. Oth, the only case - insensitive language i know of (pascal)
: doesn't produce any real-world projects and even has it's case-sensitive
: followup (Modula-2), by the same author (Niklaus Wirth). Lisp is another
: case - i didn't use it for some time already, but as i remember, the
: standard common lisp had case-sensitivity, and the syntax of the language
: allows for totally different naming schemes (with hyphens, for example).

Well, COBOL is pretty widely used; a few years back it was thought to have
the most lines in use of any language.  OTOH, it's monocase, not mixed
case.


Will
cwr at cts.com
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