Comment by omnicognate
4 years ago
Spaces don't make anything more descriptive, they just cause completely unnecessary quoting and escaping hassle.
The amount of time that has been wasted by Windows using "C:\Program Files" instead of "C:\Program_Files" far outweighs any highly questionable aesthetic benefit IMO.
On the other hand, how much broken code has been fixed to properly deal with paths just because of that? I'd argue that to be a major benefit. Same with Windows Vista forcing developers to write applications that work properly as a non-admin user.