Be Excellent To Each Other

http://www.codecademy.com

I know several Beexers have expressed an interest in learning how to program. You could do a lot worse than spend an hour with this site. Very interactive, bite-sized tutorials, with a really neat cheevo system to boot.

Cool, that's great for me.

That's really neat.

Although it has reminded me how much case sensitivity in variable names is infuriating and stupid.

WHY I OTTA..!

Although not just in variable names. Yes, you can all kill me now.

See - for most language conventions I entirely agree. I defy anyone to ever tell me, however, that it's a good idea for varname and varName to be able to hold different values though. It doesn't provide any conceivable benefit other than to increase the chance of fuckups. I apply the same to case sensitivity in filesystems. Especially when it means that http://mywebserver/filename.txt gives a 404 and http://mywebserver/Filename.txt doesn't. Eugh.

It's a good idea for varname and varName to be able to hold different values.

It weeds out the girlie men programmers.

gingerCunt = "Craster";

The only time case sensitivity is an issue is in daft languages which don't require you to declare variables. Which is a bad idea for so many reasons.

Only true if you're only working on your own code. What I've you're working on my code and I've declared two variables the same but with different cases? Agreed that it's extra disastrous if declaration isn't required.

Are there any case-sensitive languages that don't require declaration though? I can't think of any.

Perl.

I think the question is, why would you want to do that?

PHP.

Maybe I'm a knob?

Or a Knob?

Welsh

Oh yeah. Ick.

Whatever crazy version of javascript we use for Ui testing. (Or indeed, javascript?)

Javascript requires declaration. It doesn't require typing, but you have to declare a variable before you use it.

A) don't be a knob an use shit coding practice.
B) don't employ people who use shit coding practices. Because if they can't manage something as simple as this... oh boy are you in for a world of pain down the line

Not on all variants. Trust me on this.

I do. Implicitly. I would have been happier if you'd written "Not on all ventricles" though.

No you don't. But if you don't declare it, the variable becomes global, which isn't such a good idea most of the time.

I've been forced to use ReSharper, and in C#3.0 you can use var and let the compiler/IDE implicitly deal with the type rather than explicitly declaring it yourself. It still handles all the correct typing and all that.

I can understand why you can do it, but considering I started out in Pascal it feels utterly, completely, totally wrong. I still don't like doing things like declaring int when I know the number will never be above 255 - legacy of starting out on a PC1540. I did Google to see why this is the preferred method, but each discussion seemed to end up as a Holy War, so I just gave up and did as it said.

Your Mum does it implicitly on all ventricles.