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> maybe the kids

Really? You posted a divisive and absolute statement and people pointed out how it's not accurate. Considering "Program Files", a very common Windows path, was introduced back in Windows 95 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120307-00/?p=81...), almost 30 years ago, it's pretty hard to blame it on "the kids".

That doesn't sound like "those damn kids and their newfangled apps that can handle spaces, they'll never know the pain I went through!!!" and more like "I said something that was clearly not accurate and people pushed back".

The whole thing reeks of https://www.mouser.com/blog/Portals/11/mrb-singularity-f1.pn...

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I've had lots of programs, libraries and scripts freak out from having whitespace in a file path.

> I said something that was clearly not accurate and people pushed back

Is my life experience invalid? It's a needless error that i never want to deal with again. I cover my mouth when i cough, i use my turn signal when changing lanes, and i don't put whitespace in a filepath or a URL. It's that simple.

What i cannot fathom for the life of me, on HN of all places, is vehemently defending a practice that is not guaranteed to work 100% of the time: "Well iiiive never grazed an oven coil pulling a potroast out of the oven so obviously this guy is an idiot for advocating oven mitts." Give me a break dude.

It’s almost as if, get this, it’s not a problem, let alone anywhere even remotely in the vicinity of a problem of the scale and magnitude you claim it to be.

It’s almost as if people in 2023 get by fine with spaces in their filenames whereas you seem to be stuck squarely in the 1980s.

I know, it’s a crazy idea. Those kids and their insanity. /s

> you seem to be stuck squarely in the 1980s.

You know, my main hobby is writing ASM for classic video game consoles, and my opinions and experience involves lots of janky / homemade / antiquated programs, so honestly you're not wrong =p

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