Language change and code breaks

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <cpvgkq1f2b.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>,
Guido van Rossum  <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
>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.

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