Just Wondering

Jeffrey Kuskin jskuskin at eleazar.dartmouth.edu
Fri Apr 21 13:46:42 AEST 1989


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.

    So...why?

 -- Jeff Kuskin, Dartmouth College

EMAIL:  jskuskin at eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU



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