Hmm, no page by that name yet?
Sounds too trivial, doesn't it?
But shouldn't someone here at
WikiWiki categorize
ProgrammingLanguages by
whether they treat function names, classes and variable names case-sensitive
or
CaseInsensitive?! Shouldn't be there be a discussion of the
ProsAndCons?
- BasicLanguage - case insensitive as far as I remember
- CeeLanguage - case sensitive, and cause for all following languages being it
- PhpLanguage - mixed: function names are case-insensitive, but variable names are sensitive - isn't this somehow inconsequent? why did they make it so?
- BooLanguage - similar to Python. It is case sensitive, but there is a patch for the next version that allows you to have a case-insensitive option.
My first shocking experience with
CaseSensitivity was, when a prof from
SwitzerLand visited my school, talking two hours about switching from
PascalLanguage to the
OberonLanguage (Oberon-2 actually) and I only discovered in the very very last example shown, that it all was case-sensitive (...)