From: Robert Dober Date: 2008-03-26T23:35:56+09:00 Subject: Re: INTERPRETED LANGUAGE On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:25:36 -0500, Jitendra Rai wrote: > > > IS IT NECESSARY FOR AN INTERPRETED LANGUAGE TO BE CASE SENSITIVE? > > 10 LET A$="NO IT IS NOT" > 20 PRINT A$ > RUN > basic.rb:4: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting $end 10 LET A$="NO IT IS NOT" BTW this is run with Ruby1.8 but Ruby1.9 gives the same results, this is very troublesome. Like Ken I was certain that bASic was a subset of Ruby ;) Robert -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ --- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein