Now, there is an interesting debate on whether a programming language should be case-sensitive, but hopefully none on whether or not _data_ should be case-sensivive.
Data should be case sensitive. Right? We agree on that don't we? Mostly?
OK. Now here's the revelation:
A program *is* data.
Therefore it should be case-sensitive.
Q.E.D.
Back in ancient pre-history, the program was physically wired into a machine. If you wanted to run another program, you re-wired the machine. Some clever guy (Turing?) realised that the program was data itself, so could be stored in the machine in the same way that other data was. Hence, the concept of the stored-program computer that we know and love today.
Cheers, Carl.
