From eedab2e0fa4caca72990dc2762bcbd07b1ed24b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathaniel Beaver Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 23:50:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Move extended quotes to footnotes. --- readme.rst | 195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-) diff --git a/readme.rst b/readme.rst index 65d49b5..6f60183 100644 --- a/readme.rst +++ b/readme.rst @@ -396,103 +396,9 @@ http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html However, there is also no shortage of opinions that enforcing filename case-sensitivity -- and even case-sensitivity in general -- -was a bad decision. +was a bad decision. [#against_case_sensitivity]_ - 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? - - --- 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. - - --- Julian, OddThinking (2005) - -http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2005/10/27/the-case-for-case-preserving-case-insensitivity/ - -There are also passionate views to the opposite effect. - - Many of us consider those filesystems which cannot preserve case, but - which accept "input" in random case, to be so utterly broken as to be - undeserving of any attention whatsoever. They create a situation where - 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 (2003) - -https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-11/msg00127.html - - Why oh why on Earth engineers at Microsoft decided to make Windows case - insensitve [sic] and then use camel case anyway, wherever possible? - - It makes case-sensitive systems and their sysadmins cry :-( - - --- u/bwosc (2015) - -https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2w6c8g/case_insensitive_windows_rant/ - - Why are computer file names and conventions and protocols so messed up? It's - bizarre -- and Microsoft has been one of the worst offenders with one of the - most powerful positions and opportunities to make it a better filename-naming - world. - - [ . . . ] - - And, Microsoft dares to allow mixed case naming, but does case insensitive - handling of file names... don't even get me started about some of the bizarre - results and buggy behavior I've traced to that. I only wish I'd had a - 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 (2006) - -http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190747&cid=15690704 +There are also passionate views to the opposite effect. [#against_case_insensitivity]_ Laying aside that argument for the moment, why did Windows filenames end up case-insensitive? @@ -623,6 +529,103 @@ For example, the Linux port of the `Unity engine`_ has `issues with case-sensiti http://www.multicians.org/pl1.html +.. [#against_case_sensitivity] + + 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? + + --- 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. + + --- Julian, OddThinking (2005) + + http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2005/10/27/the-case-for-case-preserving-case-insensitivity/ + +.. [#against_case_insensitivity] + + Many of us consider those filesystems which cannot preserve case, but + which accept "input" in random case, to be so utterly broken as to be + undeserving of any attention whatsoever. They create a situation where + 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 (2003) + + https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-11/msg00127.html + + Why oh why on Earth engineers at Microsoft decided to make Windows case + insensitve [sic] and then use camel case anyway, wherever possible? + + It makes case-sensitive systems and their sysadmins cry :-( + + --- u/bwosc (2015) + + https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2w6c8g/case_insensitive_windows_rant/ + + Why are computer file names and conventions and protocols so messed up? It's + bizarre -- and Microsoft has been one of the worst offenders with one of the + most powerful positions and opportunities to make it a better filename-naming + world. + + [ . . . ] + + And, Microsoft dares to allow mixed case naming, but does case insensitive + handling of file names... don't even get me started about some of the bizarre + results and buggy behavior I've traced to that. I only wish I'd had a + 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 (2006) + + http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190747&cid=15690704 .. [#MSDOS_case_insensitive]