Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 20/05/2025 17:58, 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.
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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.

I'm not entirely sure (yet, at least) that 'troll' is a fair assessment of Mr Edwards. Time will tell.

Mr. Edwards also believes that MS-DOS is the be-all and end-all of operating
systems.

Citation needed. He has mentioned it in passing... I just trawled through all his articles in this thread, and I just found that one fleeting reference.
Perhaps I missed it. Would you be so kind as to point out why you believe that "Mr. Edwards also believes that MS-DOS is the be-all and end-all of operating systems"?
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