Can I claim that I was not libelling the wooden Hollywood actor, purely because I spelt his name in all-caps? Can I claim to a judge that KEANU REEVES was a undeclared identifier and therefore the entire statement was semantically meaningless? Of course not. Suppose I declare that "KEANU REEVES interferes with elephants.". Thirty plus years later, does case sensitivity still make sense? Julian at OddThinking makes a compelling argument that it doesn't in The Case for Case-Preserving, Case-Insensitivity: I'm merely voicing my discontent with the status quo. I'm not attempting to change anyone's mind. While this decision may have made sense in 1972 when the language was created, one wonders why the sins of Kernighan and Ritchie have been blindly perpetuated for the last thirty-three years. One of the most pernicious problems with C-based languages is that they're case-sensitive.
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