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cm0002@piefed.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 25 天前

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cm0002@piefed.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 25 天前
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  • lemming741@lemmy.world
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    Microsoft intentionally made programs install to C:\Program Files on Windows 95+ to force programmers to deal with spaces in filenames.

    Someone make one of those “statements made by the utterly deranged” memes about it, please and thank you.

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      what is even more funny about this is that the name of that directory used to be locale-dependent, so in sweden it was just called “Program”, completely nullifying that idea.

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        C:\Program Files

        C:\Program Files (x86)

        C:\ProgramData

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          C:\PROGRA~1

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            me coming back to cmd after spending a month in command.com:

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          The fucking parenthetical x86 absolutely kills me. I don’t normally wish dick cancer on people,

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        It’s only localised in the file explorer. The actual folder name is always Program Files.

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          Only since vista, it used to be localized.

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            what about placeholders/variables like %localappdata%, %windir%, %programfiles%?

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              I can only assume these always existed, otherwise it would have been a nightmare for everyone.

              • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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                Excel used to have, and I think it still has, localised function names.

                Makes it a nightmare to look up stuff on the Internet.

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                  the entirety of office has localised hotkeys. whaddayamean ^F is “search”? it’s for fat text!

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                    i hate that in the spanish edition save is ctrl+g…yet save as is still ctrl+shift+s

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                  Still does. Commas or semicolons as separators in functions differ at least. It fucking sucks.

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                nope, that’s an NT thing

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            Really? That is absolute insanity

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      No this is just clever

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      Given even what little I know of their history and what they are doing now, I cannot be sure this wasn’t the intention at least partially

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