Re: encapsulating directory operations

On Wed, 21 May 2025 21:19:50 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:

Common Lisp standard which is from similar period as C includes
directory manipulation. In modern times this is considered one of
least useful part of the language: to run "everywhere" this part is
baroque and promises only a little.

Unfortunately all too common in those days.

And the Algol 68 standard, from the previous decade, was if anything even
worse.

Nowadays we just assume some minimally POSIX-compliant behaviour, and that
keeps things nice and simple. As for platforms that can’t manage even
that ... too bad.