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@@ -334,10 +334,9 @@ http://www.multicians.org/mgc.html
http://www.multicians.org/pl1.html
This has some intuitive appeal;
it is useful to be able to distinguish between
it is useful to be able to distinguish between, say,
the abbreviation for United State ("US")
and the first-person plural objective pronoun ("us"),
for example.
and the first-person plural objective pronoun ("us").
.. Talk more? E.g. Rob/rob, Job/job, Lot/lot, Miami Marlins vs Miami marlins, Target sale vs target sale, Scrabble/scrabble, drake/Drake
@@ -359,7 +358,9 @@ to uppercase or lowercase.
http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html
However, there is no shortage of opinions that this was a bad choice.
However, there is no shortage of opinions that case-sensitive filenames
-- and even case-sensitivity in general --
was a bad decision.
Anecdotally, case sensitivity in programs is known to be error-prone for
both beginners and experienced users. Bob Frankston, a Multics alumnus