Language change and code breaks

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> (GvR) writes:

GvR> But it's still open for debate whether the problem here is Windows or
GvR> Unix!  All programming languages and file systems used to be
GvR> case-insensitive, until the designers of Unix and C decided that it
GvR> was too much work to write and use a case-insensitive comparison
GvR> routine.  

This is not true. Algol 60 was case-insensitive from the beginning. By
design, as Algol 60 was designed the way it is in spite of the difficulties
it would give its implementors.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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