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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:06:26 GMT Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote
concerning 'Re: Website':
> > > > MS made evil uppercase filenames popular. Inherited them from CP/M in 1981
> > > > and didn't begin to get rid of them until 1995.
> > >
> > > 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).
>
> 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.
in programming it's easy - if I want to name a variable FILE, I don't
want it to be misinterpeted as a command, if one day an upgrade
introduces a 'file' command.
As for filesystems - why is 'a' == 'A'? what if my computer is set to
show 'a' as an "Aleph" - like it did in old implementations of hebrew?
should accent marks be ignored as well?
Besides, if windows chooses to ignore case, fine - why does it
remember the case of files when I save them then? just auto-force
everything to lowercase, then ignore case....
Dan
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| (...) OK. What if a 'FILE' command is introduced? Personally, I don't want my variables to be the same word as the programming language's keywords. That's just asking for trouble. (...) Because many people like it to show mixed case. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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