On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Anton Mamaenko <amamae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow... this thread gets to finally become a holy war.
It's not like this particular holy war is new, either. I'm sure it was beaten to death in the days before Windows was a thing. As I indicated in an earlier note, VMS and Unix did command line parsing (well, globbing at least) differently. There were holy wars about that on Usenet before many here were born, before many more were out of grade school. Add to that the holy wars between Apollo and Sun Microsystems (network topology (Token Ring v. Ethernet), as I recall, probably remote procedure calls and networked file systems as well). I remember being at one meeting where the Apollo and Sun gangs were going at it hammer-and-tong, in person, not with the anonymity of the Internet to obscure their views of each other. I can't now remember if that was about RPC or networked file systems. Those were the good old days. :-) Some things are better just left alone. File globbing is probably one of those things. There's no right answer, and the people in the two camps will never come to a compromise. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
