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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:11:54 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote
concerning 'Re: Website':
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.publish, Dan Boger writes:
> > > In lugnet.publish, Karim Nassar writes:
> > > > <sarcasm>
> > > > Isn't it great how Windows has *improved* personal computing??
> > > > </sarcasm>
> > >
> > > I can't help it... what does this have to do with windows? ;)
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> > MS made evil uppercase filenames popular. Inherited them from CP/M in 1981
> > and didn't begin to get rid of them until 1995.
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> Actually, the EVIL part isn't uppercase filenames per-se, it's that WinDOwS
> is case-insensitive about filenames, even to the absurd point of allowing
> filenames in IIS-served URLs to be case-insensitive. There are few things
> more evil.
oh - ok, I agree... having a case-insensitive platform, well, it just
isn't good :) I thought the jab was at W2k or somesuch that finally
does care about case... (Does it? I don't know - wouldn't touch it
with a stick).
Dan
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| (...) Why is case insensitivity evil? What good comes from having case sensitivity? I have yet to see any good coming from case sensitivity in a file system or a programming language. (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Actually, the EVIL part isn't uppercase filenames per-se, it's that WinDOwS is case-insensitive about filenames, even to the absurd point of allowing filenames in IIS-served URLs to be case-insensitive. There are few things more evil. --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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