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I love programming languages that are case sensitive. So easy for each programmer to have their own programming style on naming variables and then errors galore, which in the end will result in hiring an outside senior to clean-up the mess - that's me of course, and all for heavy money.

Somebody please invent another case sensitive programming language, we don't have enough of them already.

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It's hard to conceive of an issue which is less important in modern programming. In 20 years of commercial programming on a variety of platforms my experience is that case sensitivity causes no problems at all and case insensitivity causes only minor and occasional problems.

I would love to live in your bubble. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, depends on what point of view you refer to, as freelancer in past 10+ years, real life is quite different.

Discounting someone else’s experience as “not real” and substituting in your own doesn’t make their viewpoint invalid. And to throw in my own, I have never seen case sensitivity be an actual issue that takes more than a couple minutes to resolve.

I've occasionally seen issues with thingId and thingID, but mostly they've been aesthetic or in serialised contexts (json is a swine for this).

Aren't they all case sensitive since FORTRAN and BASIC?

Only in the C, C++, Java, ... universe.

Worked with a few case smashers in the 80s. Smashing Unicode is hard, I guess. I don’t really have much of a preference for or against case sensitivity, though I do hate fuglyCaps

Pascal, R, Lisp, Ada, SQL are case-insensitive.

And COBOL, don't forget COBOL! ;-)

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