Re: Apple Engineer Explains Case in/sensitivity Reasoning, etc.

[Scott Anguish]

On Wednesday, April 18, 2001, at 06:01 PM, Paul Henry Smith wrote:

> Fred is a member of the core operating system group and senior engineer 
> at Apple.  This is his story about integrating UNIX and Mac OS, the 
> trade-offs and the reasoning.
>
        It's pedantic, but Fred left Apple about two months ago to work at 
a startup.

        He's still actively involved in Darwin, and probably did the port 
of Perl 5.6 to Darwin in the first place...

        I don't see why this was an issue for the Mac side of things.. case 
sensitivity could have been taken care of in the Finder, and since the 
majority of Mac applications use a GUI to select files, this could have 
been worked out without breaking unix stuff..

        Ah well