Re: Breaking backwards compatibility - good or bad?

Tony Marston wrote:
>>Because it's better, IMHO.
>
>
> Exactly why is case-sensitivity better? No human language allows a word to
> have a different meaning just by canging its case, so why should a computer
> language be different, espeically when that difference allows for
> unmaintainable code?
>

I'm not going to bite on that one any more. Several people have tried
to tell you. Go back through this thread. I'm not going to repeat
their arguments.

The one exception I will make - when computers can understand verbal
instructions (or even written instructions) like people do, then you can
compare computer and human languages. Until then, you are talking
apples and oranges.

>
>> And if the majority of programmers didn't think it was progress, it
>>wouldn't have caught on.
>
>
> Mere programmers don't have a choice, it's only the language authors that
> have a choice. And what was their reason for choosing case-sensitivity when
> all previous languages, whether human or computer, were entirely and
> completely case-insensitive? There is no good reason, which leads me to the
> conclusion that it was a STUPID MISTAKE that you are trying to perpetuate.
>
>

Horse Hockey. EVERY programmer has a choice as to which language to use.

And quite frankly, most programmers I know would put you in the
"old-timer-has-been-who-refuses-to-change-but-wants-everyone-else-to-change-to-suit-him"

category.

And quite frankly, I really don't give a damn what you think. So I'm
not going to waste any more of my time.

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