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Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) by amelius on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:52PM (#43949674)
I like that I can write:

    Window* window = new Window(...)
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) by sillystu04 on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:57PM (#43949697)
You probably don’t like this:

  String string = “String.com”;
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) by amelius on Saturday May 10, 2025 @07:18PM (#43949813)
I don't see the problem to be honest.
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) by Dwedit on Sunday May 11, 2025 @01:05PM (#43955152)
I can't imagine that working in any programming language, given the smart quotes.
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) by tedunangst on Saturday May 10, 2025 @08:47PM (#43950276)
You don't need case sensitivity for that.
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) by amelius on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:19PM (#43950442)
Perhaps if you redesigned the language. But case sensitivity makes things a lot clearer.
Re:Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) by int_19h on Sunday May 11, 2025 @11:59PM (#43959531)
Imagine if instead you could write:

  w̲i̲n̲d̲o̲w̲* window = new w̲i̲n̲d̲o̲w̲(...)
(that's the original ALGOL 60 reference language syntax, for the curious; although it didn't have user-defined types, so it was keywords that were underlined)

Then there's the Smalltalk approach:

  aWindow := Window new ...