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in thread To Perl or not to PERL.

But misspelling (for example the aforementioned pearl) is of a different quality than case.

Perhaps not in your native language.

Remember also that the difference between use strict; and use Strict; is dramatic. Proper capitalization in programming is vital to correct behavior.

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Re^4: To Perl or not to PERL.
by jethro (Monsignor) on Jul 14, 2010 at 23:37 UTC
    Perhaps not in your native language.

    Note that I share the same native language with moritz who made the initial point. Since he shares your view, native language doesn't seem to be the dividing line

    "Proper capitalization in programming is vital..."

    Sure, and proper capitalization in sign language is absolutely non-vital. If you want to offer programming languages as analogy I might ask where the for loop is in the english language ;-)

    Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against keeping perl in lowercase. But whatever importance you or I might attach to it, the question is what impression newcomers take away when they get corrected for that. Look at young programmers used to twitter and the World-of-Warcraft chat and guess what they think about the importance of case

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      But whatever importance you or I might attach to it, the question is what impression newcomers take away when they get corrected for that.

      Sure; there's no excuse to use extra knowledge that other people don't have yet as an excuse to be rude to novices. Details are worth getting right, but never as a weapon with which to berate people.

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