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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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Re^7: Only perl parses perl hash notation?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 05, 2004 at 20:13 UTC

    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.

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