Re: [Gnu-arch-users] case preserving vs. case insensitive

[Robert Anderson]

Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:

> On Mar 11, 2004, at 7:59 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:52:39AM -0700, Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:
> >
> > >   Note that English, is CaSe InsEnsiTive.
> >
> >
> > Do you not distinguish between 'cat' the animal
> > and CAT the maker of industrial caterpillared tractors?
>
>
>   If I could, you wouldn't need to specify "the animal" and "the maker 
> of industrial caterpillared tractors".
>
>   Separating:
>
>    "Do you not distinguish between 'cat" and CAT".
>
>     Do you not distinguish between the animal and the maker of industrial
> caterpillared tractors.
>
>     Not that the first sentence is meaningless, while the second 
> sentence actually
> makes sense. QED, most of the information content in that sentence was 
> not the CaT.

Geez, I thought *I* was the most annoying guy on this list.

We don't program in English.  This whole conversation is inane.

Bob