Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 2025-05-22, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

On 5/21/25 11:37, Richard Heathfield wrote:
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I was hoping that Mr Edwards would be another such. I was (and
remain) very ready to give him a fair crack at the whip, albeit
not at the expense of people respected by people I respect, as it
were. It seems that Mr Edwards may have come to us from a more
combative environment where accusations of dishonesty are rife
and hardly noticed; if so, it might take him a while to get used
to a group where we generally treat such disrespectful tactics
with contempt. Let us hope he learns quickly, before he ends up
in too many killfiles.

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He's been in my killfile for a long time; long enough that I don't
remember when or why. I only see his messages when quoted in other
people's responses. Nothing I've seen from him in this thread has
motivated me to remove him from my killfile.

Shrug. I see Paul as one of the good guys, fighting the ...
Well, I don't know about "good fight", but at least "nerd fight".

A lot of us have some measure of nostalgia for bygone systems, and deal
with that in our own ways.

For instance, someone not involved in any tinkering with any actual old
stuff (hardware or languages) may nevertheless manifest nostalgia by
decrying everything and anything that is overcomplicated and bloated,
keeping his or her program images small, yet highly functional.


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