Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:47:00 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense) |
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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Every directory-based document system has failed for general use. > Directories are containers or "folders", distinct from documents. > Attempts to hide this in a GUI will always fail.
The way I see it, files and directories are OS level abstractions, whereas documents are much higher-level.
In many ways simplicity, efficiency and programmer efficiency were originally responsible for the document-as-file design, so I find the arguments for low-level support of this rather ironic.
Matthew.
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