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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Latest suggestion for 202x
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 07:07:47 +0200
Date: 2019-06-24T07:07:47+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qeplr0$bk1$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ehdvgepli93bqfiisllgca27350n3nledo@4ax.com>

Le 23/06/2019 à 19:42, Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit :
> It was probably defined that the language itself had to be able to
> be written using a minimal character set -- hence the case insensitive
> nature of keywords and identifiers, and likely the lack of []
Yes for [], but no for case insensitivity.

Case sensitivity brings nothing but confusion. The principle for any
decent language is that if two identifiers mean the same thing in the
brain of the reader, then they must correspond to the same entity. And
the meaning of a word is not changed by casing.

-- 
J-P. Rosen
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-24  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-15 23:59 Latest suggestion for 202x Micah Waddoups
2019-06-16  5:14 ` Jerry
2019-06-16  7:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-16 10:22 ` Egil H H
2019-06-16 16:54   ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-16 20:09     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-17  6:54     ` Egil H H
2019-06-17  7:42       ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-17 12:01     ` Mart van de Wege
2019-06-17 13:35       ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-17 15:20         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-17 15:32           ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-17 16:43             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-17 21:38           ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-18 15:48             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-06-20 22:21             ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-21  9:42               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-21 18:12                 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-21 18:43                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-21 20:24                     ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-22  6:54                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-22  8:43                         ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-22  9:00                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-22 17:44                         ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-22 18:34                           ` Bill Findlay
2019-06-22 18:37                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-23  7:38                             ` G.B.
2019-06-23  8:29                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-23 18:34                               ` Optikos
2019-06-23 19:20                                 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-22 20:48                           ` Optikos
2019-06-22 20:53                             ` Optikos
2019-06-23 17:42                             ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-24  5:07                               ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2019-06-24  5:40                                 ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-24  7:16                                   ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-26 18:00                                     ` Stephen Leake
2019-06-24 13:07                                   ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-24 11:12                                 ` Stefan.Lucks
2019-06-24 12:06                                   ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-24 20:22                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-24 20:32                                       ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-24 20:47                                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-06-24 13:10                                   ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-22  8:36                   ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-22 17:39                     ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-16 19:34 ` Optikos
2019-06-16 20:10   ` John Perry
2019-06-16 20:57     ` Optikos
2019-06-16 21:36       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-17 16:48     ` G. B.
2019-06-17 17:12     ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-16 21:41 ` Lucretia
2019-06-19  2:36 ` Micah Waddoups
2019-06-19 11:14   ` Lucretia
2019-06-19 11:45     ` briot.emmanuel
2019-06-19 14:34       ` Optikos
2019-06-19 19:29         ` Lucretia
2019-06-19 16:12   ` G. B.
2019-06-23 20:17 ` Per Sandberg
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