I think I would have a *wide* variety of age ranges to consider. For some students, this might be their first language or their first language after mastering Scratch. For others, this will be another dialect onto which they will have to map their skills in other languages (some of which are case insensitive).
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]>wrote: > 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? >
