Emphasis Preaching Journal

Many computer languages are case-specific, which means words must be exactly the same throughout the program or they will be not recognized. For example, "This" is not the same as "this," or "THIS." One such case-specific Web-developing language is JavaScript, which was designed for nonprogrammers to enable them to create programmable Web pages. That is the theory at any rate. Armed with this knowledge, a fellow programming dabbler set out to create a great Web site. Things went well. But when he didn't emerge from the den for several hours, his wife decided to check on him. When she entered the room, her husband was (in no particular order) angry, frustrated, angry, bewildered, and angry. Nothing was working. He kept receiving a frustrating a script error message. "I've tried everything and looked everywhere, and it still doesn't work," he exclaimed. His wife, an English professor, glanced at a printout of his page. "Why is this word capitalized here and not there?" she asked. Sure enough, throughout the program my friend alternately capitalized and lower cased several different command words. When he corrected those mistakes, his program ran fine. Jesus instructed his tired and frustrated disciples, "Cast your nets here."
-- Becker 2