Re: encapsulating directory operations

"David Brown" <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote in message
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On 20/05/2025 18:58, Scott Lurndal wrote:

David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

On 20/05/2025 15:47, Paul Edwards wrote:

>

Well, in the 1990s I had some work colleagues who were
incensed that I had converted some K&R C code to C90,
and called it "nancy C". I pointed out that Ritchie himself
had endorsed the standard, and they still didn't budge,
saying that he had become deranged or something like that.
>

>
They were justified in thinking that "Richie himself endorsed the
standard" is a totally irrelevant argument.  They would be wrong if

they

said he had "become deranged".

>
David, it's not particularly productive to continue to feed the trolls.
>
Mr. Edwards also believes that MS-DOS is the be-all and end-all of

operating

systems.

>
If he can be persuaded to leave that kind of stuff out of his posts, he
might talk more about C.

That statement of  belief - nor anything close to that -
exists in any of my recent, nor even my past, posts.

So I have already done as requested - and always have.

BFN. Paul.