[TUHS] Were all of you.. Hippies?

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Sun Mar 26 12:52:07 AEST 2017


On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Josh Good <pepe at naleco.com> wrote:

> born in
> those days, so particularly case-sensitive?
>

​About to get on a lane, will try to reply next week but I've always said
case-insensitivity is a classic example of bug becoming a feature.​   Most
of my friends that worked on development of the DEC OS's agree.  It was
side effect that was turned into a (bad IMO) feature - but that is a matter
of taste.

Clem
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