• FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz
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    1 year ago

    It’s neat that Linux has the ability to do this, but I honestly can’t think of a good usecase for this. I think this is more confusing than it is useful

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      1 year ago

      It’s quite useful for stuff like PROGRAM and Program in the same directory where PROGRAM is the program itself and Program is some unrelated files about the program. Bad example, but the case stands.

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        1 year ago

        So what you’re telling me is that it’s useful when the software you use is made by absolute idiots?

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          It’s not about software. Program, PROGRAM were just placeholders for content. I know you can think more abstract and argue in better faith than this.

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      1 year ago

      I think if you can write them in two different ways it should consider them two different things

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      I feel the same way about programming languages. There is no way that “User” and “user” should refer to different variables. How many times has that screwed people up, especially in a weekly typed language?

      One of the many things that I feel modern versions of Pascal got right.