Case insensitivity

My first programming experience was with VB.NET in Visual Studio. The IDE would automatically correct case for me, so I was saved from worrying about case until much later in my programming experience.

I am glad that to IDE did this for me. Case is akin to syntax highlighting, it is a way of presenting code graphically, so it should be controlled by the IDE. Here are more reasons for this:

1. English is case insensitive.
2. It can be cumbersome to click shift.
3. There is no good way of presenting case through sound.
4. There are numerous contradictory case conventions, for example Java uses upper camel case for methods and C# uses upper camel case. Clearly case is a personal preference, so it should just be decided by the IDE.

If there is any central tenet of Lisp it is that data and presentation should be separate. This also applies to case as it is just a way of presenting letters graphically.

Common Lisp is case insensitive by default, however, Clojure isn't. Clojure chooses to have case sensitivity, not necessarily because it is a good thing, but rather because it is an absolutely necessary to interoperate with the modern C-based computing world.