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it's kind of interesting because originally my comment was a stronger defense of hyphens then when I compared it to Case sensitivity I actually back tracked. A
by Avshalom 10y ago
it's kind of interesting because originally my comment was a stronger defense of hyphens then when I compared it to Case sensitivity I actually back tracked.
Ada for instance specifically considered then rejected case sensitivity because they had a (at least one) study that said case sensitivity was a source of errors.
I don't know how well instrumented the pyret courses are but I would be very if they have studies on this.
- skrishnamurthi 10y agoPyret's implementation is by design very privacy-preserving (we don't just quietly make a copy of everybody's code, people have to explicitly share copies — we don't want to freak out students by surveilling them). But we do have some data that students have given us. In those data, we do not find evidence of case-sensitivity being a problem.