It used to be that the computer industry (CIS and CS) were as a science program rather than the current zeitgeist of a business program. In science, as someone else studiously pointed out, whether a word was spelled with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or capitalized words, would determine what that word actually meant, what the person was speaking about.
Lets take the name of our product here... ColdFusion == "Middle tier programming language" Cold Fusion == "Doctor Who novel" cold fusion == "low energy nuclear reactions" Same spelling, completely different meanings. Also, just because a language is Case-insensitive 'does not' mean that you should treat it that way. If the application your are editing was built with a specific 'case plan' in mind. Eg. local vars are lower case, session vars are uppercase, functions are mixed case, etc. then you should follow that same methodology. This helps not only new programmers to the code to understand and follow what you have done, but also helps YOU when you come back to an application after 3 years and can't remember exactly how something was written. Also, SQL is a case-insensitive language (except when referring to the content of a column, which can be very case-sensitive). But databases can vary. So if you write your SQL as if the dB was case-sensitive, then an upgrade, update, or complete change of the database won't effect the code (much). Hope this helps -- William E. Seiter Have you ever read a book that changed your life? Go to: www.winninginthemargins.com Enter passkey: goldengrove -----Original Message----- From: Billy Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Case Sensitivity Very true. If case sensitivity is not an asset to software development, then it is a liability. -----Original Message----- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 8:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Case Sensitivity >>The rest of the world should not be crippled by Microsoft's mistakes. Case insensivity Microsoft's mistake? C'mon, case sensitive languages has been the most stupid thing and worse innovation in whole computer science history. It has been a source of many errors, much more often than it helped programmers in their work. -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290333 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
