On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > Just playing the devil's advocate (I prefer the clean filesystem of Unix), the > argument the case-folding fans make is "well, taxes and TAXES is the same > word, right?". And "polish" and "Polish" is the same word, right? AnD i cOuLD wRite THInGs LiKE thiS, aND it WouLd bE eaSiER tO REad, RiGHt? Case *does* matter. Anybody who claims otherwise is a total idiot. And no, e e cummings is not an example to the contrary. Quite the reverse. Even people like e e cummings (known for his lack of capitalization) actually became well-known exactly because he made capitalization *matter* by flouting the rules (the same way he also flouted the rules of grammar and other word usage!). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html