[Info-vax] Nomenclature, pt. 2 [was Re: VMS survivability]

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/23/2023 12:01 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 2/23/2023 8:10 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-02-22, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> On 2/22/2023 8:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> People also write ADA instead of Ada, and unlike, say, Fortran, it was
>>>> never called ADA.
>>>
>>> I truly detest case sensitivity ....
>>
>> Case sensitivity is not involved. Ada is the name of a person, and as
>> such, the normal conventions apply when writing it.
> 
> Simon is conventional, however, people recognize simon, SIMON, sIMON, 
> simoN, and such.  With case sensitivity, to a computer, Simon is not the 
> same as SIMON.

But they are not equal - I would say:

Standard      : Simon
Special cases : simon and SIMON
Never         : all other

That said then I am not a big fan of case sensitivity
for neither programming language syntax or filenames.

But they are certainly in fashion today.

Arne