gwnn Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 Do you like case sensitivity?Do you prefer semicolons or line breaks as statement terminators? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 line breaks suck, especially if you are into long variable names like number.of.polls.posted.in.the.water.cooler.per.user.ordered.by.country.of.residence so that each expression will have to be broken up. There is also an option of having implicit statement seperation like in S. Don't feel so strongly about case. Some people like to have case insensitive variable names so they can spell them with upper case when declaring and lower case when referring, or some such. I think that sucks but then again I almost never have two identifiers that differ only w.r.t. case so it doesn't matter much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlall Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 semicolon ftw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 No strong opinion either way. I've programmed in about a dozen languages, including assembly, C, Lisp, PL/I, BASIC, Fortran, Perl, and COBOL. The features in the poll are about the least interesting details that distinguish them, and make little difference in my enjoyment or productivity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 The point of this thread was to include uninteresting features that only have marginal effects. B) If the question had been "do you prefer there is a procedure that prints out something on the screen or do you prefer to have to write it yourself" or something it would be less a matter of personal taste and more a non-issue. However, I admit that this thread was pretty pointless so starting a post with "the point of the thread was..." is misleading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P_Marlowe Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Semicolon for sure, and also case sensitivity. Case sensivity is not an real issue, but it is good to have this option. With kind regardsMarlowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 by option, you mean pedantic and pointless restriction? :P :D :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 S is a pointless programming language in the sense that the dot isn't used for anything, but it means it can be used in identifier names as an alternative to underscores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I prefer not case sensitive with line breaks as default statement terminators. I don't do a lot of programming. But it seems to me that the guy who designed Python got a lot of the stuff that makes a programming language feel right right. There's a lot of stuff in the VB IDE that I really like. Saw recently that the development team is putting implicit line continuations into VB 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichMor Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I don't really like case-sensitivity but have learned to put up with it. Same for semicolons. Old VB with keyword begin/end pairs was better IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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