diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 312ed1f..94ce48e 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ 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 -It also provideds more possibilities for filenames, +It also allows more possibilities for filenames, and makes filename comparisons simpler and faster because they don't have to occasionally convert to uppercase or lowercase. @@ -389,51 +389,51 @@ to uppercase or lowercase. http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html -However, there is no shortage of opinions that case-sensitive filenames +However, there is also 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 - and the co-inventor of VisiCalc, once said it was the biggest mistake - that Multics had inflicted on the world. + 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 - filenames are capitalized. Haven't you ever fumed over a URL with initial-caps - in the folder names in the path, having to fiddle with capitalization until you - get a response that's anything but a 404? Haven't you ever been secretly - pleased that e-mail addresses aren't case-sensitive? + 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 + filenames are capitalized. Haven't you ever fumed over a URL with initial-caps + in the folder names in the path, having to fiddle with capitalization until you + get a response that's anything but a 404? Haven't you ever been secretly + pleased that e-mail addresses aren't case-sensitive? http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.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. + 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. + 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. 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. + 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. 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. + 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. 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. http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2005/10/27/the-case-for-case-preserving-case-insensitivity/ @@ -633,6 +633,8 @@ but such restrictions do not apply to filenames.) In any case, both Linux and `Windows use null-terminated strings`_, as do other modern operating systems. +.. ``` TODO: remove this hack to fix vim's syntax highlighting bug + .. _rationale for using a null-terminator: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4418708/whats-the-rationale-for-null-terminated-strings .. _Null-terminated strings do have some drawbacks: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365 .. _such as storing strings of arbitrary length: https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html