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SubjectRe: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense)
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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