Language change and code breaks

[Erik Max Francis]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> I consider myself a member of the literate minority (well
> within the upper centile on all relevant demographics), and
> having a recently-invented typographic prettiness, such as
> letter-cd tcase, affect meaning, has always struck me as a deeply
> flawed idea.  I hated it when I first met it in C and Unix,
> and a quarter of a century hasn't reconciled me to it.

Makes perfect sense to me.  What's the point of having differing
capitalization if it isn't meaningful?

Otherwise every programmer can use their own capitalization for each
identifier, which is just confusing.

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