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The Windows equivalent would be: "Nothing can parse Perl except PERL.EXE."

Funnily enough, my Perl executable is named 'perl.exe'.

The nice thing is though--just as in english where 'The', 'the', 'THE', 'tHe' etc. all have the same meaning, though some are more acceptable than others in some circumstances--I can type 'Perl', 'perl', 'PERL', the classic 'pERL', or any other combination and they all find my executable. Neat huh.

I guess you could set up 15 alias' or symlinks :).

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Re^6: Only perl parses perl hash notation?
by halley (Prior) on Oct 05, 2004 at 19:20 UTC
    An interesting aside, I suppose, but doesn't seem particularly germaine to the discussion.

    I never claimed Windows was case-sensitive, although it is (mostly) case-preserving. I merely said that like Unix, the adage depends on the use of the distinction between capital and lowercase letters to impart its full meaning.

    It's okay, sometimes I wake up grouchy and decide to be a contrarian just for the sake of disagreeing with people on the tiniest of nits, too.

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      You know, I've read and re-read what I wrote, and I still think it's funny (as was intended), rather than grouchy or contrarian.

      It's true that I happen to think that case-preserving case insensitivity makes more sense than full case sensitivity for filesystems, and even language identifiers, but it was originally meant as humour rather than any sort of serious dig at that other OS. There's even a smiley in there somewhere. Oh well.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks.
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      "Think for yourself!" - Abigail
      "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon
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Re^6: Only perl parses perl hash notation?
by SpanishInquisition (Pilgrim) on Oct 05, 2004 at 13:57 UTC
    -just as in english where 'The', 'the', 'THE', 'tHe' etc. all have the same meaning

    "tHe" is not English! "The" and "the" also have different meanings, "The" indicates the start of a sentence!

    Case-sensitivity also matters elsewhere in English, consider the implications of "He" vs "he" when talking about God.

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      "The" indicates the start of a sentence!

      No, the presence of a capital letter on the first of a connected group of words terminated with a full stop indicates the start of a sentence. Do you start every sentence with 'The'?

      The meaning of the capitalised word doesn't change. When my CLI is capable of deriving meaning from my typing sentences at it, then case might be a useful semantic, but until then it's just inconvenient.

      Unless you have a good use for having seperate commands: perl, Perl, PErl, PERl, PERL, pErl, pERl, pERL, perL, peRL, PeRl, pErL?

      If so, you'll spot the 4 missing useful commands instantly?

      As for the implications of the other matter--do you think hE would be bothered? Or is it only man that gives import to such matters?

      Examine what is said, not who speaks.
      "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
      "Think for yourself!" - Abigail
      "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon
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        No, the presence of a capital letter on the first of a connected group of words terminated with a full stop indicates the start of a sentence. Do you start every sentence with 'The'?

        Please, I was making a case for sensitivity (pun intended) in the English language (which you said didn't exist), and you are being pedantic. "He" and "he" mean different things in the middle of a sentence. Using "He" in the middle of a sentence to describe "Tom" is not valid English, because it DOES have a different meaning, unless a certain god (non-specific, hence lowercase 'G') is named Tom. Just as "pERl" is totally meaningless and if you typed that, you don't deserve to get anything executed by running it. What happens if you type "cC" on an old HPUX box, do you get "CC" or "cc" ?

        As for the implications of the other matter--do you think hE would be bothered? Or is it only man that gives import to such matters?

        Not mine, maybe yours. Dunno.

        Unless you have a good use for having seperate commands: perl, Perl, PErl, PERl, PERL, pErl, pERl, pERL, perL, peRL, PeRl, pErL?

        I'll give you once good case for sensitivity in filesystems. Wikis.

        Maybe you just like Windows and hate other systems. That's fine. There is no reason to fight for NTFS though, in many areas, such as fragmentation, it's really flawed. If *BSD, Linux, Unix aren't your thing .. just say so. I actually have a Mac too and I'm not crazy about HFS+ being (by default install) case-insensitive. Generally files and directories should be able to have different casing and not clash. There are occasions where this is warranted.

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