12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
4:31 p.m.
On 12/12/11 2:43 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
...
Perhaps it's just me, but I really quite /liked/ the VMS system:
name.extension;version. Saved my bacon a few times, did file
versioning. Given how cheap disk space is now, I'm saddened it's not
made a comeback.
It's not as if Unix doesn't offer sophisticated versioning systems - and
several flavours of versioning filesystems if you are so inclined. I do
not think it need be an overloading of filenames, though. Version
control has moved on significantly since 1980...
--T
As to file extensions: well, much as I liked the classic MacOS
system, with strong, meaningful file metadata, even if hidden, the
plain old file-extension system works fairly well....