Re: encapsulating directory operations

<Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 May 2025 15:05:01 +0100
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wibbled:

Operating systems have least excuse of all for turning rock into
sand. It's harder to build stable software if it has to sit on
top of amorphous gloop.

>
On a related note, I can still compile unix C code I wrote in the 90s at

uni

without any changes on linux and mac.

And I can write code I wrote that complied with the ANSI 89
draft available circa 1987 on Windows 10.

I can't run Windows 11 on the computer I smuggled out of
Communist China (with Zhaoxin processor).

BFN. Paul.