Case-sensitivity: why -- or why not? (was Re: Damnation!)

[David Porter]

* Phil Fraering <pgf at globalreach.net>:
> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:
> 
> > I am a very case-sensitive person myself: it bothers me when people
> > don't start their sentences with capital letters or when they refer to
> > themselves as "i" in lowercase -- or when people refer to Python as
> > "python" or "PYTHON".  (Come to think of it, it bothered me when you
> > wrote "german" instead of "German" :-).
> 
> Personally, I simply think that lowercase is more readable than uppercase,
> but I don't really know the reason why. 

maybe because there are more spacial cues to recognize in lower case than in
UPPER CASE, which looks MONOTONOUS and RUDE. lower case: each letter is well
defined and arranged. UPPER CASE: THE LETTERS ARE BLOCKY AND CRUDELY
DEFINED. PLUS THEY ARE BUNCHED TOGETHER.

  david.
  
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