Comment by msla
1 year ago
The dividends of damn near everyone who still matters copying Unix and developing similar ideas about subdirectories and filenames and so on.
There's still differences between Windows and Everything Else, but it's easier to ignore them now that, for example, all of the old flat file systems with no directories (like on the original MacOS, CP/M, MS-DOS 1) are all comprehensively obsolete and ignored.
> all of the old flat file systems with no directories (like on the original MacOS, CP/M, MS-DOS 1) are all comprehensively obsolete and ignored.
not quite true. The classic flat OS/360 filesystem is still heavily used on IBM mainframes. Of course, probably your app will never run on a mainframe, and if it does, it will probably run either under z/Linux or the z/OS UNIX filesystem (zFS). But there is still a lot of actively supported in-production software which does, since born-on-the-mainframe apps mostly use the classic filesystem and the POSIX file API is mainly used by apps ported from elsewhere