From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-16 06:17:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Modern languages are case sensitive? Organization: RMIT References: <3105e154.0110150021.32ff5426@posting.google.com> <9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <3BCB2E0B.5D7894CD@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0110160342.23b9481c@posting.google.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:16:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.82.11 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1003238219 144.132.82.11 (Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:16:59 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:16:59 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14664 Date: 2001-10-16T13:16:59+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > And I can't help but get a chuckle out of someone thinking > of Unix as a "modern operating system". Indeed if you > do look at modern operating systems (e.g. Windows XP, or > OS/2), they are case insensitive. The case sensitive decision of C and > Unix was in my opinion never well justified or thought out, and now it > just gets copied. Apple must keep you rolling in the ailes then. They have "the most modern" underpinnings for their new OS :-) Dale