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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 17:36:21 +0100
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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:
>>> ...
>>>>> Is C90 perfect? No, of course not.
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> They use a lot of C++, do they?
> 
> 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.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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