Programmer Humor

19176 readers

973 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

1199

A Guessing Game (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

105 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why are they still so hung up on 8.3 long after Win95?

I get not wanting to have spaces in a filename. Those suck.

Is there something low-level that still doesn't like long filenames?

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Well this was Vista era, they were probably doing that to ensure some sort of expectation from particularly tricky legacy apps. Windows prefers not to break old apps if at all possible.