Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 29/05/2025 16:08, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:

On 29/05/2025 11:11, James Kuyper wrote:

On 5/29/25 05:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 29 May 2025 09:39:51 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:

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Is C90 perfect? No, of course not.

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Is there some value in that particular state of imperfection? Like the
Amish, whose concept of the ideal level of technology is the one that was
in effect at the time they were founded? And who have remained stuck at
that point in time ever since?

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That's not actually the case. The Amish have slowly adopted more
advanced levels of technology as the people around them have adopted
farm more advanced ones. The important thing, from their point of view,
it not a particular level of technology, but to maintain a clear
distinction between them and the non-Amish.
Which means that they are more adaptable than Richard is.

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They use a lot of C++, do they?

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They do love power tools.

 :-)
 If you want to take down a tree in a hurry, a chainsaw is just the job, but more delicate work requires more delicate tools.
 More to the point, if you have a million lines of legacy code all written in C90, it's a bloody good idea to keep a C90 compiler around because maintenance.