Why is C# Case Sensitive? [closed]

Answer 1

It was just a matter of taste on the C# langauge designer team. I am willing to bet it was for comonality with other C family languages. It does however lead to some bad programming practices such as a private field and its associalted property differing only in the case of the first letter.

EDIT:

Why might this be cosidered bad.

class SomeClass 
{
    private int someField;

    public int SomeField
    {
        get { return SomeField; } 
        // now we have recursion where its not wanted and its 
        // difficult for the eye to pick out and results in a
        // StackOverflowException.
    }
}

Prefixing private fields with an _ or an m might make it easier to spot. Its not a huge biggie and personally I sill do exactly what I have just said is bad (so sue me!).

Answer 2

C# inherits the case sensitivity from C and Java, which it tries to mimic to make it easier for developers to move to C#

There might have been some good reasons for making C case sensitive when it was created three decades ago, but there don't seem to be any records on why. Jeff Atwood wrote a good article advocating for that case sensitivity might no longer make sense.