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every UNIX and POSIX system that has been well-designed Case sensitivity wasn’t designed; the first Unix couldn’t spare the CPU cycles to do case insensitive m
by goatinaboat 6y ago
every UNIX and POSIX system that has been well-designed
Case sensitivity wasn’t designed; the first Unix couldn’t spare the CPU cycles to do case insensitive matching, which was the norm at the time.
- caslon 6y agoAnd yet nearly every UNIX system that was well-designed isn't case insensitive. I was pointing out correlation, not causation.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoHow many case-insensitive UNIX systems are there? I’m not sure you have enough data points here. :P