Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:11:27 05/22/02
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On May 22, 2002 at 22:10:57, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On May 22, 2002 at 20:54:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> [...] >> >>windows and its disdain for case-sensitivity is not a good thing. It was >>done just to "be different" because older systems certainly didn't behave >>like this... and there are _many_ systems that pre-date ms-dos and windows. >> >> [...] >> >>Not only unix. I can't think of any operating system that didn't support >>case-sensitivity on keyboard input _except_ for msdos and derivatives... >>This goes back (even) to early programming languages... >> >> [...] > >CP/M >RT-11 >RSX-11M > >Eugene All pieces of junk. What about xerox UTS/CP-V. VMS? LTSS? I won't enumerate all the possible unix variants. But to continue. IBM/TSO. Data General's MVS. IE _every_ system I have used has been case sensitive. I can't think of one that wasn't, except for possibly RSX-11... but I complained so much about that Ken Thompson sent me a dectape with an early version of unix on it and I was hooked from then on... I see _absolutely_ no justification for ignoring the caps characters and treating them all differently. Just as I see no justification in windows deciding which characters in a filename should be uppercase and which should not. Of course a system that encourages spaces in filenames is not exactly reasonable anyway. :) Of course, this is all moot since my favorite programming language has absolutely no case-sensitivity. :) On that subject, I name files in ways that make sense to me. IE files starting with WCCC have to do with World Computer Chess Championships. Files named with wccc could be anything. Makes my life a lot easier...
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