On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:10 PM, aikimark1955 <[email protected]>wrote:
> Scripting languages are not generally case sensitive. There are even > compiled languages (Pascal/Delphi, VB, Fortran, etc.) that are not case > sensitive. Python, Perl, Ruby, bash and csh are all case-sensitive. BASIC is the only scripting language that I'm aware of that is case-insensitive (and some LISP dialects if you count that as a "scripting language"). There seem to generally be more case-insensitive compiled languages since mostly only older languages that supported six-bit character encodings are case-insensitive. In any case, there are lots of identifiers and keywords in Julia that differ only by case, so there's no way this is going to happen. I mean, you could maybe pull it off, but it would be a huge amount of incredibly tedious work – and you'd never be able to use any packages. The notion that case-insensitivity helps students, honestly strikes me as pretty dubious. What age group are we talking about here?
