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> But files, directories and paths are just abstractions we use for convenience Abstractions common to literally every home computer operating system from the
by DC-3 8y ago
> But files, directories and paths are just abstractions we use for convenience
Abstractions common to literally every home computer operating system from the last several decades.
- ForHackernews 8y agoAnd absent from (or at least heavily obfuscated on) the mobiles and tablets young students use as their primary computing devices.
- onion2k 8y agoExcept games consoles. And tablets. And phones. And quite a lot of online services..
- awild 8y agoPhones have files and directories and there are several apps targeting normal audiences.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- dkonofalski 8y agoIn other words, "that's how we've always done it". Is the justification for continuing to do it that way when the very foundation of that is based on outdated abstractions? As mentioned, there's no tangible reason for using directories and files as organizations except that we're fitting modern paradigms into existing ones. We're retro-fitting them to a system that existed because of technical limitations that don't exist now, for some reason.