Why make a language case sensitive?

[Peter Timaratz]

Well, then they could have made it a lower case language. :)

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> I imagine with Python it comes back to the readability argument which is a
> strongly held belief in the design. And lower case is more readable :-)
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> "Peter Timaratz" <timaratz at lisco.com> wrote in message
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> > I can't think of any advantages to a case sensitive language.
> Python is a
> > very well-designed language though, so I imagine there is a
> good reason that
> > it is case sensitive. So what are the advantages of a case sensitive
> > language?
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