Language change and code breaks

[Sibylle Koczian]

piet at cs.uu.nl wrote:
> 
> >>>>> 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.
> --
But that's exactly what he says! Algol 60 was before C, as far as I
know, and case-insensitive as was normal at the time.

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