[antlr-interest] "Honey Badger" case insensitivity

[Graham Wideman]

From the 'v4 "Honey Badger" teaser' thread...

In response to suggestions for more compact case-insensitivity syntax

Ter said:
> Hi Graham and crew
Fortunately case insensitive 
> keywords are less common these days. 

And Sam said:
> However, I will agree it's not that common these days.

I'm gonna rate this "[citation needed]" !

To assert "less common", you guys perhaps have some stats that show a dwindling square mileage of text in  HTML, SQL, PHP, Basic (including VBA), Delphi, Fortran, COBOL, spreadsheet formulas and others that are candidates for ANTLR-generated digesters?

Or info on trends in simple ASLs intended for non-programmer end-users, who generally regard strict case requirements as gratuitously frustrating?

Probably true that the steady parade of hip new programming languages leans heavily towards case-sensitive keywords and identifiers.  But I'm not convinced that represents the overall distribution of ANTLR opportunities.

By the way, nice one, Sam, suggesting Honey Badger could use more sugar :-)

Happy New Year all! 

-- Graham