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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 14:31:06 -0700
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On 5/29/2025 9:36 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> 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.
> 

The Amish, from Family Guy:

https://youtu.be/-wlwtpH1ldM

LOL! They are quite efficient!