John Gilmore wrote:

>There is an old mathematical/engineering tradition of distinguishing

>the meanings of the minuscules and majuscules of the same alphabetic

>letter.



<snip>



I can *almost* buy this in programming (and yes, I read to the end, and
realize you aren't advocating that). But the case-sensitivity defenders also
seem to think that Banana, BANANA, and BaNaNa invoking different executables
makes sense. That way lies madness.



.phsiii (who once spent a day traveling to a customer site to fix a case
problem in a four-line Linux flat text configuration file, because the
customer couldn't figure it out, nor cut&paste successfully)

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