Posted by Colin Fine on 12/31/05 20:55

Wayne wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:03:27 +0000, Colin Fine
> <news@kindness.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>You may well be right that it will become increasingly difficult to find
>>systems that aren't case insensitive. But I've yet to hear a reason why
>>this is to be welcomed, while I do know a couple of reasons not to
>>welcome it.
>
>
> Case-sensitive begets case-sensitive. If you have a case-sensitive
> file system, that tends to bleed over to case-sensitive language
> identifiers. Once you have one langauge that's case-sensitive (like
> C) other languages need to interface with that language.
>
> If all programming languages existed in a vacuum, then you could
> pretty much do whatever you want. But in reality, everything has to
> work with everything else and really only the languages that play nice
> in the overall world succeed. PHP became popular originally because
> it leveraged many existing C libraries.
>
> I'm not sure it matters anymore which choice is better -- it's simply
> a matter of which ever is more common. Betamax vs. VHS.
>
I agree (and from what I've been told about Betamax, the comparison is
apt). But people seem intent on rubbishing Tony because he dares to say
"Betamax is better", or rather "Why have you changed my machine to VHS
without asking me?"

Colin

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