From a9c22b425bed6e4ed18911b6863c190b195f07c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathaniel Beaver Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:54:29 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Better citing. --- README.rst | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index bcee2d8..47a10b2 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ when we now know that `even Microsoft loves open source`_? in so far as their actions are directly relevant to the technically capabilities of Windows and Linux. As an aside, Microsoft gets a lot of guff in the open-source world, -but their behavior is typical of almost any company -that relies primarily on selling proprietary software and devices for revenue. -It's just economics, not malice.) +but its behavior is typical for a corporation +whose a bottom line relies on sales of proprietary software and devices. +It's economics, not malice.) The discussion is intended to be as accurate as possible, at the cost of possible dryness due to technical detail. @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ This is why Linus Torvalds `chose an unusually high`_ timer interrupt frequency if it's really only been up for ten), but if it is off by just a factor of two, it might be overlooked. - -- Linus Torvalds + --- Linus Torvalds, *Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt* (2005) .. _chose an unusually high: https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/8/263 @@ -389,17 +389,11 @@ to uppercase or lowercase. http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html -However, there is also no shortage of opinions that case-sensitive filenames +However, there is also no shortage of opinions +that enforcing filename case-sensitivity -- 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 - and the co-inventor of VisiCalc, once said it was the biggest mistake - that Multics had inflicted on the world. - -https://www.ma.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2003/004483.html - Mac ＆ Windows users have to have filenames read to them over the phone by support techs. They have to be able to write little sticky notes to their mothers about how to open up the mail program, without worrying about how the @@ -408,32 +402,53 @@ https://www.ma.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2003/004483.html get a response that's anything but a 404? Haven't you ever been secretly pleased that e-mail addresses aren't case-sensitive? + --- Brian Tiemann *On Unix File System's Case Sensitivity* (2001) + http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html + Anecdotally, case sensitivity in programs is known to be error-prone for + both beginners and experienced users. Bob Frankston, a Multics alumnus + and the co-inventor of VisiCalc, once said it was the biggest mistake + that Multics had inflicted on the world. + + --- Stavros Macrakis (2003) + +https://www.ma.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2003/004483.html + One of the most pernicious problems with C-based languages is that they're case-sensitive. While this decision may have made sense in 1972 when the language was created, one wonders why the sins of Kernighan and Ritchie have been blindly perpetuated for the last thirty-three years. + [ . . . ] + Unless you have extremely compelling reasons to make something case-sensitive, case insensitivity is a much more human being friendly design choice. Designing software that's easier for machines is questionable at best. + --- Jeff Atwood, *The Case For Case Insensitivity* (2005) + http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-case-for-case-insensitivity/ There is no longer any excuse for making humans learn and handle the quirks of the way computers store upper- and lower-case characters. Instead, software should handle the quirks of human language. + --- Brian Hauer, *Case-sensitivity is the past trolling us* (2014) + http://tiamat.tsotech.com/case-sensitivity-sucks Since it appears to have manifested out of opinion rather than necessity, it could be said case-sensitivity is the worst way that modern technology sucks. + --- Greg Raiz (2007) + http://www.raizlabs.com/graiz/2007/02/11/linuxunix-case-sensitivity/ - This is really stupid, it causes a ton of problems and there is no longer any - good reason to have case sensitivity in an OS. + This is really stupid, it causes a ton of problems and there is no longer + any good reason to have case sensitivity in an OS. + + --- Julian, OddThinking (2005) http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2005/10/27/the-case-for-case-preserving-case-insensitivity/ @@ -445,7 +460,7 @@ There are also passionate views to the opposite effect. the computer effectively considers the users to be too stupid or blind or whatever to be able to say what we mean accurately. - --- Greg A. Woods + --- Greg A. Woods (2003) https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-11/msg00127.html @@ -454,7 +469,7 @@ https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-11/msg00127.html It makes case-sensitive systems and their sysadmins cry :-( - --- u/bwosc + --- u/bwosc (2015) https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2w6c8g/case_insensitive_windows_rant/ @@ -471,7 +486,7 @@ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2w6c8g/case_insensitive_windows_rant/ chargeback code for all of the time I've spent fixing and debugging systems that all come back to the file naming. Sigh, again. - --- yagu + --- yagu (2006) http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190747&cid=15690704