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I started programming with Modula-2 and I really believe it was case sensitive. In fact I remember the book I used to learn it (Ogilvie) mentioning the case sen

by emme 1y ago

I started programming with Modula-2 and I really believe it was case sensitive. In fact I remember the book I used to learn it (Ogilvie) mentioning the case sensitiveness as a peculiarity of the language: "if case matters in natural languages, why programming languages should ignore it"

pjmlp 1y ago
It is, as do all C derived languages. After Pascal, all languages that Niklaus Wirth created were case sensitive. Uppercase keywords are debatable as a style, however with good IDE tooling hardly an issue. Similarly to BASIC and SQL, or spaces in ML languages and Python, don't use Notepad like editors for them, use something with autoformatter. Pity that in Modula-2 case those products are long gone, and I doubt many would bother with a VSCode extension or something.
- trealira 1y ago
  There is a VSCode extension for syntax highlighting in Modula-2: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redstar.m2-vscode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redstar....
  - pjmlp 1y ago
    Yes, I guess it could be a starting point for automatic formating as well.