Why make a language case sensitive?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Peter Timaratz wrote:

> 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?

Not having to deal with abominations like

class DoSomething:

	def some_method(self):
		pass

a = dosomeThinG()
a.soME_mEThod()

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