Posted by Tony Marston on 07/30/06 08:39

"Miguel Cruz" <spam@admin.u.nu> wrote in message
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> "Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> In my time I have worked on mainframes, minis and micros, punch cards,
>> paper
>> tape and teletypes, the languages I've used have been Assembler, COBOL,
>> SPL,
>> INSIGHT, TRANSACT, POWERHOUSE (which consisted of QUIZ, QUICK and QTP),
>> UNIFACE, SQL and HTML. None of these were case-sensitive.
>
> You may be disheartened to know that XHTML is case sensitive, so your
> days of <B>hello</b> are numbered.

I've already encountered that, and it pissed me off no end.

> Also, in MySQL table names are case-sensitive on unix boxes (since they
> are used as file names).

Yes, but there's an option to make table names case-INsensitive. Take a look
at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/name-case-sensitivity.html

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Tony Marston
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