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From: arash@jendeh.UUCP (Arash Farmanfarmaian)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: case sensitive names
Message-ID: <149@jendeh.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-May-85 03:04:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 03:04:02 1985
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> [argh]
> 	There are two different sites named 'cfib' and 'cfiB' !?
> 	Also olympus and Olympus.
> 
> 	Paths are:
> ...ihnp4!ima!cfib!
> ...ihnp4!masscomp!sii!cfiB!
> ...ihnp4!dual!olympus!
> ...ihnp4!vax135!Olympus!
> 
> I don't think case-sensitive sitenames should be encouraged.
> I mean, what is this, 'C' or something?
> 
> Merlyn Leroy

	Looks like its my night to bitch on the net. It has been caused by
 on overindulgeance in champagne, to celebrate the end of the school year in
 Princeton. Any way, even though I just bitched about the use of Fortran and
 even Basic (arghhhhh!!) on UNIX, I still think I should pick a bone of 
 contention with Merlyn. Pascal ( at least some of you people out there must
 have heard about it ) IS case sensitive ( at least I have always seen
 it as such) and I do believe that 'C' should be so too. At least variable 
 names and site names should be so. I am not going to profess any love for
 Pascal based languages ( especially after having worked on a stupid version
 called TPL, which is marketed by Texas Instrument ). Nonetheless I do believe
 that case sensitivity, especially in a non-programming-language context like
 news is worth it.
 
				Arash Farmanfarmaian'85

 P.S.: On this machine e-mail has NOT been re-directed to /dev/null. So any 
 flames are welcome. But do expect them to be answred with venom. And just to
 fuel to fire let me say something else. I think APL is a viable programming
 language ( don't bother flamming on this one, unless you have tried to
 implement any algorithm involving loops, WITHOUT LOOPING in APL, and have
 succeeded. For your information there is an argument running around the
 Civil Engineering Department here to the effect that any algorithm can be
 implemented without looping in APL. No one has been able to prove this; but
 after sucessfully implementing the 'shortest path', 'any path' and a version
 of the 'traveling salesman' problem without any looping, in APL, I believe
 this assertion
-- 
Arash Farmanfarmaian
...!allegra!princeton!jendeh!arash

		"Any man who lives within his means suffers from a lack of
		imagination"