Re^7: Only perl parses perl hash notation?

"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?

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Re^8: Only perl parses perl hash notation? by SpanishInquisition (Pilgrim) on Oct 05, 2004 at 14:55 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^9: (AM) Only perl parses perl hash notation? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2004 at 10:46 UTC
I'll give you once good case for sensitivity in filesystems. Wikis. You mean, wikis wouldn't be possible if filesystems weren't case sensitive? Come on, you don't believe that. Just that some wikis exploit both the mapping some HTTP servers make between URLs and filesystems, and the case sensitivity of filesystems doesn't mean wikis are otherwise hard. Take a look at one of the larger wikis: wikipedia. It's database driven, not filesystem driven, and hence, neither depends on the case sensitivity of a file system, nor exploits it. There are many good arguments for a case sensitive filesystem, and I'm glad I don't have to work often with filesystems that are case insensitive, but I don't think "wikis" is one of the stronger arguments.	[reply]