Ask HN: ShOulD wE do AwaY wiTh CASE sENSItiVITY?

I've programmed extensively both in languages that are case sensitive and languages that are case insensitive, and in environments that are case sensitive and environments that are case insensitive.

My preference, formed from experience over many, many years, is for case-sensitive systems. Bad programmers program badly in both, good programmers program well in both, but there is an additional expressiveness available in cased systems that I miss badly in uncased systems.

One person's anecdata.

Careless -> Caseless (in “care” :-) that wasn’t obvious — Phone entry respellers!)