> > Yes. (In the OSX case, IIUC, you can now format a case-sensitive FS; > and in the Windows case the choice was done ages ago, and nearly > nothing changes on Windows...)
And how many people do this? > > But I did say "most". It's safe to assume that for every example of a > case insensitive piece of software I can find about 10 case sensitive > ones. Anecdotal evidence is therefore not going to be a good tool for > advocating case insensitivity. Most? You must have a very different measure of the rest of the world if you consider programmers vs. users of computers... >> The universe of programmers is far smaller than the universe of >> computer users, and computer users (except for ordinary Unix ones, >> which tends to be a subset of the universe of programmers) would >> scream if they ever had to deal with case sensitivity. > > We're not talking about users, we're talking about programmers. But I would hope, and it was certainly a goal of Scheme early on, to make more users programmers. Some of us believe that in this day and age, being ignorant of programming, at least at some level, is akin to being ignorant of mathematics (again at some level) or science. Thus making changes to a primarily teaching language that are extraneous to novice users (as opposed to experts from other programming languages) seem misguided at least. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
