On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Just playing the devil's advocate (I prefer the clean filesystem of Unix), the
argument the case-folding fans make is "well, taxes and TAXES is the same
word, right?".
And "polish" and "Polish" is the same word, right? AnD i cOuLD wRite
THInGs LiKE thiS, aND it WouLd bE eaSiER tO REad, RiGHt?
Case *does* matter. Anybody who claims otherwise is a total idiot.
And no, e e cummings is not an example to the contrary. Quite the reverse.
Even people like e e cummings (known for his lack of capitalization)
actually became well-known exactly because he made capitalization *matter*
by flouting the rules (the same way he also flouted the rules of grammar
and other word usage!).
Linus