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Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:15:12 GMT
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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:37:43 GMT, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper
Janssen) wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:09:04 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve
> Bliss) wrote:
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> > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:29:31 GMT, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper
> > Janssen) wrote:
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> > > As is right and proper. Ones that aren't case-sensitive bite hard.
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> > Why?
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> Because it's the Unix way! But seriously.. I mean, think of a
> _logical_ reason why ShElLL.bMp and shelll.bmp should refer to the
> same file - the main reason lose98 does that, is beacuase DOS _had_ no
> capitalisation in its filenames. And as we all know, win98 is just a
> GUI on top of DOS.
Is 'Reason' the same word as 'reason'? Filenames aren't just some
internal computer identification. They're used by people, and people
are not (generally) case-sensitive. Well, they might be case-sensitive
if you don't capitalize their name properly. But they recognize it as
their name, not as a different name entirely.
I also don't like my programming languages to be case sensitive, for
more-or-less the same reason. I think it's illogical for a program to
choke on the keyword 'if', but accept 'IF' with no problem.
Computers should serve people, not the other way around.
Steve
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 | | Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
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| (...) Amen. But if that really happened then Unix geeks wouldn't be able to walk around thinking they're better than everyone else because they know how to do things the hard way while looking down on people who get the job done doing them the easy (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Case-sensitivity in programming languages
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| (...) Well, one of the reasons many high-level languages are case-sensitive is that it vastly increases flexibility and expressiveness. Languages such as Lisp, Forth, PostScript, Perl, etc. with advanced string manipulation capabilities, dynamic (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Lego Easter Eggs!
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| (...) Because it's the Unix way! But seriously.. I mean, think of a _logical_ reason why ShElLL.bMp and shelll.bmp should refer to the same file - the main reason lose98 does that, is beacuase DOS _had_ no capitalisation in its filenames. And as we (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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