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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: RE: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: 2 Jun 2003 10:33:52 -0500
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In article <mailman.11.1054567285.12990.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> writes:
> My experience with XML, which is case sensitive, has convinced me that case
> sensitivity is one of the worst possible changes for Ada. The case
> sensitivity of XML has caused me to waste very large amounts of time. Bill
> Gates' one major contribution to software engineering was that he made DOS
> case insensitive.

VMS commands, from which some of the DOS commands seem to be taken,
are quite case-blind.

Or by "major contribution to software engineering" did you mean
"not messing it up" :-)