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Feb 23, 2020, 8:37:42 PM2/23/20
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I correct a last typo, read again..
About Case Sensitivity..
The trend in computer languages has been to be case-sensitive for a long time now. Java, JavaScript, C#, C++ are all case-sensitive languages. This, in my opinion, is one of the most boneheaded design trends to come out of a group of people who are supposed to be “smart”. You can argue semantics and personal preference to the ends of the earth, but I’ll always win any debate by asking this one question that those of you who think that case-sensitivity is a good thing for language design simply cannot answer:
“How does complaining when I type ‘int32’ instead of ‘Int32’ make your compiler a better, more-productive, and useful ‘tool’ than if you simply just let it slide with a warning or hint?”
To me, computer languages are tools, not rules. You can evaluate the usefulness of an everyday household tool with some fairly objective and quantifiable metrics and chances are, people who have nail-guns are going to be more productive than people who use hammers.
Similar things can be applied to computer languages: Languages that help you get the right answer will yield higher productivity than compilers that simply complain when you get it wrong. On a completely different subject — file systems: they shouldn’t be case sensitive either…. seriously why does my grandma care if she named her file “recipies.txt” or “Recipies.txt” and even as an engineer/power-user, why on earth would I want to have the privilege of having both?
Delphi is not case-sensitive.
Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.
I correct a last typo, read again..
About Case Sensitivity..
The trend in computer languages has been to be case-sensitive for a long time now. Java, JavaScript, C#, C++ are all case-sensitive languages. This, in my opinion, is one of the most boneheaded design trends to come out of a group of people who are supposed to be “smart”. You can argue semantics and personal preference to the ends of the earth, but I’ll always win any debate by asking this one question that those of you who think that case-sensitivity is a good thing for language design simply cannot answer:
“How does complaining when I type ‘int32’ instead of ‘Int32’ make your compiler a better, more-productive, and useful ‘tool’ than if you simply just let it slide with a warning or hint?”
To me, computer languages are tools, not rules. You can evaluate the usefulness of an everyday household tool with some fairly objective and quantifiable metrics and chances are, people who have nail-guns are going to be more productive than people who use hammers.
Similar things can be applied to computer languages: Languages that help you get the right answer will yield higher productivity than compilers that simply complain when you get it wrong. On a completely different subject — file systems: they shouldn’t be case sensitive either…. seriously why does my grandma care if she named her file “recipies.txt” or “Recipies.txt” and even as an engineer/power-user, why on earth would I want to have the privilege of having both?
Delphi is not case-sensitive.
Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.
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