Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 26/05/2025 07:19, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote:

Groovy hepcat Tim Rentsch was jivin' in comp.lang.c on Fri, 23 May 2025
10:43 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.
 

C99 is just as stable as C90, and has been for well over a
decade.

    Methinks Tim is having trouble with his arithmetic. Either that or he
doesn't know what year it is now. :)
   C99 was ratified in 1999, over two and a half decades ago.
 

C11 is just as stable as C90, and has been for just slightly
less than a decade.

    And C11 was ratified in 2011, no? That was almost a decade and a half
ago.
 

Tim was, I believe, taking into account the time it took for common implementations of C compilers and libraries to have complete and generally bug-free support for the standards, and for these implementations to become common.  C99 was published in 1999, but it took quite a while before most people programming in C could happily use C99 without worrying about the tool support being "experimental" or not as mature as C90 support.