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

[Fredrik Lundh]

Juergen A. Erhard <jae at ilk.de> wrote:
>     Guido> (1) Randy Pausch, a professor at CMU, found, when teaching
>     Guido> Python to non-CS students in the context of Alice
>     Guido> (www.alice.org), that the number one problem his students
>     Guido> were having was to remember that case matters in Python.
>     Guido> (The number two problem was 1/2 == 0; there was no
>     Guido> significalt number three problem.)
> 
> Did he try a Python that was case-insensitive?

maybe you should follow that link, read up on the alice project
and the people behind it, and then tell us what you really think
about HCI researchers?

> And case-sensitivity is really not hardcore computer science.

is it computer science at all?  it's not as if the *computer* really
cares about case, you know...

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