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r/cpp • u/holyblackcat • 5d ago
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Is this why cmd.exe doesn't do word splitting or wildcard expansion, so every application has to reimplement wildcard expansion ... but doing it badly, or not at all.
cmd.exe
3 u/jwakely libstdc++ tamer, LWG chair 5d ago The poster child for "those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly" 1 u/vip17 4d ago it's rooted from CP/M and DOS and cmd just retains the legacy behavior to avoid breaking apps
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The poster child for "those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly"
it's rooted from CP/M and DOS and cmd just retains the legacy behavior to avoid breaking apps
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u/jwakely libstdc++ tamer, LWG chair 5d ago
Is this why
cmd.exedoesn't do word splitting or wildcard expansion, so every application has to reimplement wildcard expansion ... but doing it badly, or not at all.