Re: encapsulating directory operations

On Thu, 29 May 2025 22:09:54 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:

I shudder to think how much C90 code is out there, but it has to be /at
least/ in the region of 10^9 LOC, much of it in the military arena,
medical applications, and particularly the world of comms.

The military and aerospace were/are using Ada a lot. That’s why the 🇺🇸 DoD
sponsored its creation, after all. And guess what: that is a language that
is still alive and well and being maintained today. Because that is a
language that was designed to be more robust against stupid errors than C
could ever be.