Language change and code breaks

[Guido van Rossum]

Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> writes:

> Windows is case-insensitive and thus "easy to use" only before one needs
> to put web-pages on the real (UNIX) web-server. Then they understand all
> the troubles with mised case, national-charset filenames, abbr~ted
> filenames, local file references "C:\Mydocs\lalala", bmp-images etc.

But it's still open for debate whether the problem here is Windows or
Unix!  All programming languages and file systems used to be
case-insensitive, until the designers of Unix and C decided that it
was too much work to write and use a case-insensitive comparison
routine.  It wasn't necessarily intended to be better, just easier to
implement.  But times have changed, and that's a lousy excuse.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)