Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 20/05/2025 11:33, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 20/05/2025 10:18, Keith Thompson wrote:

C90 will never be extended.

 And for that reason it will always be valuable. Stability has a value all its own.
 

Sure.
Similarly, C99, C11 and even C17 are stable and are valuable because of that stability.  It's good that developers have, to a fair extent at least, an option to pick their stable point for their projects.
It is actually not the fact that C has had stability in its standards that is valuable.  Python 1.0 has not changed - it is stable.  What makes C different as a development language is two things - modern tools continue to support old standards, and new standards are, to a very large extent, compatible with the old standards.
And this also means that "extending C90" (or any other C standard) is an oxymoron, counter to the whole point of standards, and the antithesis of why C has remained popular (or at least useful) for so long.