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> I'd advocate for pascal et al over C-like languages simply because of case insensitive identifiers. Then what happens when a German programmer has an identif
by LeafStorm 15y ago
> I'd advocate for pascal et al over C-like languages simply because of case insensitive identifiers.
Then what happens when a German programmer has an identifier called weiß? Will accessing it as WEISS work? When dealing solely with US-ASCII, case-insensitivity might be useful, but Unicode and the use of non-English non-Latin writing systems opens a whole new can of worms.
- dextorious 15y agoHow about NOT using a German identifier? His code could sometime end in the global community, and the meaning will be lost, while almost every programmer understands basic English (it's kind of a prerequisite).
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