Upper/lower case in identifiers

Adriaan van Os gpc at microbizz.nl
Sun Sep 12 00:33:35 CEST 2004


Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> Which case-sensitive one? It's Pascal code, and Pacal is
> case-insensitive.

That may have been a wise design decision in the 1970's when programs 
were written on punch forms and then typed out by card punch operators. 
Anno 2004, it is an anachronism. I agree with Waldek that humans are 
case-sensitive - at least I am.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os




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