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Re: gEDA-user: simulation advice
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Apr 3, 2007, at 3:25 PM, David Kerber wrote:
As a windows user who does java programming (which is 
case-sensitive), I can
understand being used to it, but why would you actually prefer it?
  I can tell you why *I* prefer case-sensitivity.  It makes sense.  
'A' is simply not the same thing as 'a'.  Even in something as 
imprecise as the English language, they are used differently.  Making 
things insensitive to case involves expending effort to reduce 
accuracy...and that really seems dumb to me.
I just had a "Windows flashback" thinking of case sensitivity. I was 
recently coerced into reviewing some VC++ code using VisualStudio - what 
a freaking nightmare. People speak of this IDE system as if it fell from 
the sky - it is actually the most unintuitive, complex piece of garbage 
I have ever laid eyes on. Case insensitivity is at the top of the PITA 
list for non-windows developers. Case sensitivity and code development 
(and general file/directory organization for some) go hand in hand.
Ryan
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