On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > I hate EBCDIC! I wish IBM had provided just an EBCDIC kernel and let FOSS > supply the shell > and utilities. > NIH. I somewhat understand why IBM did this. First, IBM is very concerned with support and quality. GNU software is top quality. But IBM would need to devote resources to supporting it. And, given the license, any fixes they made to GNU software would need to be returned to GNU and anyone else "on request". If good (which is pretty much a "given"), it would be integrated with the base GNU and distributed to all other GNU user for, horrors!, _FREE_! I am reasonable certain that this causes IBM to totally reject it. More or less "if it cost us money to write, it should cost you use." Damn, there goes my cynicism again. > > Woe be unto web developers who code URLs with chaotic cases then try to > port their > site to a UNIX Apache server! > Yeah, I know some Windows people who CamelCase in some code, for readability, and lowercase in the filesystem for "ease of typing". Also, woe betide those who use Windows file manage to put spaces in the filename. Many parsers break on spaces (or other white space) and so the code whines like a 2yr old (or an old sysprog) when some code (usually a line command) excavates its bowels on it. > > -- gil > > -- We all have skeletons in our closet. Mine are so old, they have osteoporosis. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
