>>>Re: "However, having tried out the full LAMP stack..." -- now, if they could only do away with case-sensitivity. A real bane!
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>>Nah - you just have to change gears. Lots of languages, like C#, are case-sensitive, even on Windows.
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>Oh, yeah, I know. But case-sensitivity is perhaps the most stupid thing ever put into a programming language.

I view case-insensitivity like training wheels. When you're in that sort of environment too long, though, it tends to affect all your thinking - you start to think that ( "russell" = "Russell" ) is .T., for example.

Over the years I've seen maybe half-a-dozen cases, in other peoples' code, where the programmer carelessly used different cases when referring to the same variable or other symbol name in a case-insensitive language. The code was always sloppy, so now it's a real "Danger, Will Robinson!" signal to me.

In the final analysis, I prefer to use autocomplete/IntelliSense-like features of the IDE, or just copy/paste of variable and symbol names rather than typing them every time (error-prone), so case sensitivity doesn't really matter to me. If you code like your language is case-sensitive, even if it isn't, you never get burned.