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However, there is also no shortage of opinions
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that enforcing filename case-sensitivity
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-- and even case-sensitivity in general --
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was a bad decision.
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was a bad decision. [#against_case_sensitivity]_
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Mac ＆ Windows users have to have filenames read to them over the phone by
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support techs. They have to be able to write little sticky notes to their
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mothers about how to open up the mail program, without worrying about how the
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filenames are capitalized. Haven't you ever fumed over a URL with initial-caps
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in the folder names in the path, having to fiddle with capitalization until you
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get a response that's anything but a 404? Haven't you ever been secretly
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pleased that e-mail addresses aren't case-sensitive?
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--- Brian Tiemann, *On Unix File System's Case Sensitivity* (2001)
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http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html
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Anecdotally, case sensitivity in programs is known to be error-prone for
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both beginners and experienced users. Bob Frankston, a Multics alumnus
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and the co-inventor of VisiCalc, once said it was the biggest mistake
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that Multics had inflicted on the world.
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--- Stavros Macrakis (2003)
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https://www.ma.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2003/004483.html
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One of the most pernicious problems with C-based languages is that they're
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case-sensitive. While this decision may have made sense in 1972 when the
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language was created, one wonders why the sins of Kernighan and Ritchie have
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been blindly perpetuated for the last thirty-three years.
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[ . . . ]
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Unless you have extremely compelling reasons to make something case-sensitive,
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case insensitivity is a much more human being friendly design choice. Designing
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software that's easier for machines is questionable at best.
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--- Jeff Atwood, *The Case For Case Insensitivity* (2005)
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http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-case-for-case-insensitivity/
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There is no longer any excuse for making humans learn and handle the quirks of
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the way computers store upper- and lower-case characters. Instead, software
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should handle the quirks of human language.
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--- Brian Hauer, *Case-sensitivity is the past trolling us* (2014)
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http://tiamat.tsotech.com/case-sensitivity-sucks
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Since it appears to have manifested out of opinion rather than necessity, it
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could be said case-sensitivity is the worst way that modern technology sucks.
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--- Greg Raiz (2007)
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http://www.raizlabs.com/graiz/2007/02/11/linuxunix-case-sensitivity/
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This is really stupid, it causes a ton of problems and there is no longer
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any good reason to have case sensitivity in an OS.
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--- Julian, OddThinking (2005)
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http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2005/10/27/the-case-for-case-preserving-case-insensitivity/
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There are also passionate views to the opposite effect.
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Many of us consider those filesystems which cannot preserve case, but
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which accept "input" in random case, to be so utterly broken as to be
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undeserving of any attention whatsoever. They create a situation where
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the computer effectively considers the users to be too stupid or blind
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or whatever to be able to say what we mean accurately.
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--- Greg A. Woods (2003)
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https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-11/msg00127.html
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Why oh why on Earth engineers at Microsoft decided to make Windows case
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insensitve [sic] and then use camel case anyway, wherever possible?
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It makes case-sensitive systems and their sysadmins cry :-(
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--- u/bwosc (2015)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2w6c8g/case_insensitive_windows_rant/
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Why are computer file names and conventions and protocols so messed up? It's
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bizarre -- and Microsoft has been one of the worst offenders with one of the
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most powerful positions and opportunities to make it a better filename-naming
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world.
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[ . . . ]
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And, Microsoft dares to allow mixed case naming, but does case insensitive
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handling of file names... don't even get me started about some of the bizarre
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results and buggy behavior I've traced to that. I only wish I'd had a
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chargeback code for all of the time I've spent fixing and debugging systems
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that all come back to the file naming. Sigh, again.
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--- yagu (2006)
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190747&cid=15690704
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There are also passionate views to the opposite effect. [#against_case_insensitivity]_
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Laying aside that argument for the moment,
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why did Windows filenames end up case-insensitive?
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@@ -623,6 +529,103 @@ For example, the Linux port of the `Unity engine`_ has `issues with case-sensiti
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http://www.multicians.org/pl1.html
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.. [#against_case_sensitivity]
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Mac ＆ Windows users have to have filenames read to them over the phone by
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support techs. They have to be able to write little sticky notes to their
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mothers about how to open up the mail program, without worrying about how the
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filenames are capitalized. Haven't you ever fumed over a URL with initial-caps
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in the folder names in the path, having to fiddle with capitalization until you
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get a response that's anything but a 404? Haven't you ever been secretly
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pleased that e-mail addresses aren't case-sensitive?
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--- Brian Tiemann, *On Unix File System's Case Sensitivity* (2001)
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http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html
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Anecdotally, case sensitivity in programs is known to be error-prone for
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both beginners and experienced users. Bob Frankston, a Multics alumnus
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and the co-inventor of VisiCalc, once said it was the biggest mistake
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that Multics had inflicted on the world.
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--- Stavros Macrakis (2003)
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https://www.ma.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2003/004483.html
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One of the most pernicious problems with C-based languages is that they're
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case-sensitive. While this decision may have made sense in 1972 when the
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language was created, one wonders why the sins of Kernighan and Ritchie have
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been blindly perpetuated for the last thirty-three years.
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[ . . . ]
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Unless you have extremely compelling reasons to make something case-sensitive,
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case insensitivity is a much more human being friendly design choice. Designing
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software that's easier for machines is questionable at best.
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--- Jeff Atwood, *The Case For Case Insensitivity* (2005)
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http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-case-for-case-insensitivity/
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There is no longer any excuse for making humans learn and handle the quirks of
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the way computers store upper- and lower-case characters. Instead, software
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should handle the quirks of human language.
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--- Brian Hauer, *Case-sensitivity is the past trolling us* (2014)
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http://tiamat.tsotech.com/case-sensitivity-sucks
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Since it appears to have manifested out of opinion rather than necessity, it
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could be said case-sensitivity is the worst way that modern technology sucks.
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--- Greg Raiz (2007)
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http://www.raizlabs.com/graiz/2007/02/11/linuxunix-case-sensitivity/
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This is really stupid, it causes a ton of problems and there is no longer
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any good reason to have case sensitivity in an OS.
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--- Julian, OddThinking (2005)
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http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2005/10/27/the-case-for-case-preserving-case-insensitivity/
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.. [#against_case_insensitivity]
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Many of us consider those filesystems which cannot preserve case, but
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which accept "input" in random case, to be so utterly broken as to be
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undeserving of any attention whatsoever. They create a situation where
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the computer effectively considers the users to be too stupid or blind
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or whatever to be able to say what we mean accurately.
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--- Greg A. Woods (2003)
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https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-11/msg00127.html
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Why oh why on Earth engineers at Microsoft decided to make Windows case
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insensitve [sic] and then use camel case anyway, wherever possible?
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It makes case-sensitive systems and their sysadmins cry :-(
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--- u/bwosc (2015)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2w6c8g/case_insensitive_windows_rant/
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Why are computer file names and conventions and protocols so messed up? It's
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bizarre -- and Microsoft has been one of the worst offenders with one of the
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most powerful positions and opportunities to make it a better filename-naming
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world.
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[ . . . ]
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And, Microsoft dares to allow mixed case naming, but does case insensitive
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handling of file names... don't even get me started about some of the bizarre
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results and buggy behavior I've traced to that. I only wish I'd had a
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chargeback code for all of the time I've spent fixing and debugging systems
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that all come back to the file naming. Sigh, again.
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--- yagu (2006)
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190747&cid=15690704
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.. [#MSDOS_case_insensitive]
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