case sensitivity

[Henry Spencer]

In article <13159 at dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jskuskin at eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin) writes:
>    Why is C case-sensitive? ...

Why not?  The real question is why things should be case-*in*sensitive.
Uppercase and lowercase are different in appearance and in English usage;
why should they be synonymous in a programming language?
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