On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:22, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Jim Cheetham wrote: > > 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.
I said it was an interesting debate :-)
