"I object. Names contribute to identity, and are important to most humans"
I agree. But misspelling (for example the aforementioned pearl) is of a different quality than case.
"But then other people come to the site, and see that it's spelled PERL... nobody objects - it must be right"
On the Monastery Gates page perl is mentioned correctly 73 times at the moment. The impression anyone gets seeing this is that whatever 'PERL' is, it is not used, except by an obvious newbie. Even if he should conclude that PERL is technically not wrong (if he thinks about it at all) there is nearly zero chance he will use that.
and writing stuff typically makes you remember things better than if you just read it
Yes, but what is the ratio of reading to writing even a newbie does on a site like this. If he reads 10 times as much 'Perl' and 'perl' as he writes PERL he is still learning the right version.
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