Case sensitivity/insensitivity

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <39260CB6.464EE302 at san.rr.com>,
Courageous  <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>I thought about this for a while, and my suspicion is that the first
>negative reaction that people have against case insensitivity is
>probably the instinctive (and false) idea that everyone would be
>writing python programs without case.

No, I think it's more that many of us have an instinctive revulsion
against trying to read code with random case.  If you read the posts in
all these threads, there is much more acceptance of mono-case languages
than case-insensitive languages.

In addition, while Guido rejects "status quo" as an argument, I think
that's a specious POV.  To change the status quo IMO requires evidence
that the status quo should be changed.  This is a subtle distinction,
but I think it's a critical one.
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