Bret Busby (12024-01-09): > Whilst, as I previously made the point, this is all off-topic for a Debian > operating system users mailing list, one (and, only one) of the applications > of version numbers as part of file descriptors, with (in the case of > VAX/VMS) up to the last seven versions of a file, being retained, was a > useful tool for software developers, but, responsible software development, > and, especially, the teaching of responsible software development, have been > abandoned, over the last decades.
Could it that “responsible software development” have not been abandoned, like old geezers like to pretend, but rather has moved to using solutions that do not suffer the ugly limitations of implementations in the kernel? Regards, -- Nicolas George
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