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

[Ben Wolfson]

On Sun, 21 May 2000 02:01:37 GMT, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
wrote:

>(1) Randy Pausch, a professor at CMU, found, when teaching Python to
>non-CS students in the context of Alice (www.alice.org), that the
>number one problem his students were having was to remember that case
>matters in Python.  (The number two problem was 1/2 == 0; there was no
>significalt number three problem.)

I just don't understand this.  I suppose I have to accept it, but it
mystifies me.  At my high school practically no one who took the
computer science class (AP; we used C++) had trouble after the first
day with case sensitivity, and most of us, including me, had never
programmed before.

-- 
Barnabas T. Rumjuggler

Policeman: So sir, did the suspect have four arms, each one holding a
sword, and was she wearing a girdle adorned with severed hands, her
whole body covered in the blood of past victims?
Mr Flynn:  Well, it was overcast and everything, so it was hard to say
for certain, you know?
 -- John Flynn on apihna