Just Wondering

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In article <13159 at dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, jskuskin at eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin) writes:
> A "I was just wondering" question:
>     Why is C case-sensitive?  I suppose it allows the
> lexical analyzer in a C compiler to be a bit faster,
> but certainly not much faster.  UNIX itself is
> case-sensitive, of course, but certainly C need not be.
>  -- Jeff Kuskin, Dartmouth College

An "I just can't help myself" answer:

This question comes from the place where [A-Z], [A-Z][0-9] was the state of
the art in variable naming schemes...  (plus, of course, an optional $ to
indicate a STRING variable)
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John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101
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