Gil wrote, in part: >"Right/wrong" and "broken/fixed" are highly subjective.
True. I was being a bit provocative, deliberately. To the folks who mention other languages: I disbelieve that anyone was worried about those when UNIX was created. Happy to hear evidence to the contrary, but a retroactive argument doesn't really cut it for me. In any case, arguments about "It's easier to implement this way" also don't interest me: machines should work, people should think. The huge number of people-side problems caused by case sensitivity are what I see as a failure. >Your dislike of case sensitivity in *ix is obvious. How do you >feel about z/OS, which is equally case sensitive? Yeah, that's bad too. It's always seemed to me that a well-designed system would take input, uppercase the parts that don't need case sensitivity (the non-USS bits, in z/OS, due to the historical UNIX mistake-oops, there I go again!), and proceed. Throwing an error because you received "dsn=" instead of "DSN=" is poor human factors. .phsiii P.S. Jesse, here are canned canaries for you: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Yfm8dT8fL._SL1353_.jpg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
