Is VB really case insensitive?

Question

I\'m not trying to start an argument here, but for whatever reason, it\'s typically stated that Visual Basic is case insensitive and C languages aren\'t (and somehow that is

Answer 1

I can only offer this, which as I recall from my programming text books back in the early 80s, is that case senstive languages were, (at that time) strictly intended to reduce compile time errors. That is to say, the "strictness" was intended to develop a coding discipline of greater accuracy. As it has turned out the addition of proper labeling of variables, classes, methods, functions, and whatever else you wish to throw in there, evolved as well.

I recall almost all of those books included a recommended pattern for leading capitalization, lower case, etc. As we all know, much of that has been thrown out or should I say, ignored in practice, save for the high end production houses, and CASE solutions, or for those that have reached a higher skill level. I think everyone experiences this learning curve.

Given the advancement of these langauges and IDE's, the better question becomes, which language improves my dev time? Of course if you are not familiar with each of the various langs, your options are limited.