Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames [LWN.net]

Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 26, 2009 2:19 UTC (Thu) by dirtyepic (guest, #30178)
In reply to: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames by epa
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Also see: "If it was such a good idea, someone else would have done it already. Therefore it must be flawed".

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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 26, 2009 15:23 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link]

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw)

I'm well aware that this is different than the historical past. But that doesn't make past decisions correct for the present. So, let's chat about the pros and cons; I believe that the cons for "anything goes" now outweigh the pros.