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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.

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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).

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