Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

>>>"Future proofing" is one.  As the world moves from US-ASCII only to=20
>>>Unicode, case-insensitivity becomes much more problematic.  For one=20
>>>thing, case-folding becomes *much* more complex to implement; it=20
>>>requires large tables rather than a few simple bit manipulations.  For=
=20
>>>another thing, the rules of case equivalence (and let's not even get=20
>>>into sensitivity to accents) aren't uniform between human languages.
>>>
>>>     =20
>>>
>>Yes, Unicode  makes a lot of things harder and for an OS it must be=20
>>used. Not as sure for a C/C++ and other program languages though. To=20
>>restrict variable names etc to be US-ASCII does not feel like big deal=20
>>to me even if I come from another languages zone. But any deterministic=
=20
>>translation would work well also I think.=20
>>
>>If the reason to go for case sensitive is due to technical limitations =
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>>and not an HMI  design issue it is easier to accept just as you had to=20
>>accept 8.3 filenames.
>>   =20
>>
>
>I would go even further: it about time to have RTF type formatting in
>program source code, plus a lot of other /presentation/ features. We nee=
d
>to embrace the consequence of the fact that programs are written to be r=
ead
>by humans just as they are written to be read by computers. Currently, t=
he
>human readable aspect is treated as a side aspect; comments and free
>formatting are pretty much the only features in most languages that help
>this. There should be no need to have all kinds of extra tools to create
>proper documentation, this could (and should) all be part of the languag=
e
>itself. I don't remember where, but I've seen a site dedicated to promot=
e
>that once and it really convinced me.=20
>
>Gerhard
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I prefer javadoc or doxygen style to keep documentation in code. But if=20
someone wants rtf its fine with me. I can't say I understand the=20
need.... ;-)

/Ake

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