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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:10:54 +0100
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On 11/4/10 8:08 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 11/4/2010 11:29 AM, Britt Snodgrass wrote:
>
>> The language design decision that Ada be case insensitive is something
>> that I value very much. In general, I think the "flexibility"
>> provided by case sensitivity causes more problems (risks, bugs,
>> reduced readability) than it potentially solves. I don't like case
>> sensitivity in programming languages or in file system names.
>>
>> - Britt
>
> I guess you would do not like Unix/Linux systems then (or even Apple, which uses Unix)?

Apple is special :-)

$ ls -l x X
ls: X: No such file or directory
ls: x: No such file or directory
$ touch x
$ ls -l x X
-rw-r--r--  1 bauhaus  staff  0 Nov  5 04:08 X
-rw-r--r--  1 bauhaus  staff  0 Nov  5 04:08 x
$ echo y > x
$ ls -li x X
5055985 -rw-r--r--  1 bauhaus  staff  2 Nov  5 04:08 X
5055985 -rw-r--r--  1 bauhaus  staff  2 Nov  5 04:08 x