CaseInsensitive

Last edit December 19, 2009
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 (...)