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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 09:27:01 +0100
Organization: Fix this later
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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:
>>> ...
>>>> nonsensical new inventions. The world knows full well that bit
>>>> and byte prefixes are measured in powers of 2, ...
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I must emphatically double down and insist that you were right 
>> and they were wrong wrong wrongawrong wrong.
>>
>> 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.

When the chips are down and the balloon goes up and push finally 
comes to shove, comp.lang.c never disappoints.

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Richard Heathfield
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