Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 21/05/2025 09:06, David Brown wrote:

On 21/05/2025 06:50, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 21/05/2025 03:40, James Kuyper wrote:

On 5/20/25 11:43, Richard Heathfield wrote:
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nonsensical new inventions. The world knows full well that bit
and byte prefixes are measured in powers of 2, ...

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I must emphatically disagree - long before MiB was
invented, I had arguments with people who were certain
they were measured in powers of 10, and could point at
authorities supporting those views.

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I must emphatically double down and insist that you were right and they were wrong wrong wrongawrong wrong.
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We are not alone, you and I. Maybe we could do a badge or something? Have your people talk to my people and we'll do lunch.

 The answer here, I think, is obvious.  Instead of rolling back progress 35 years to C90, we need to go further.  In 1970 the perfect extendable programming language came to light - Forth.  You can extend it in any way you like.  There is an official ANSI standard, but AFAIK no ISO standard, with no change since 1994 (and people don't pay much attention to it anyway).
 Even better, you can write :
 : 2 1.995262315 ;
 and redefine "2" to be the tenth root of 1000.  Now 2 ^ 10 = 1000, KiB and KB are identical, and the world is united again.

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