Re: Resources (Re: Sed)

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:

>For thousands of little teeny objects? Get real. The file system overhead
>would bloat your application so fast it'd be insane.

No, only those things that are worth it. You wouln't put an rPString in
a seperate file, you'd stick it into the program itself.

>Your stated philosophy is already the status quo on unix. Administrating
>unix machines is _loads_ of fun. There are a lot of things that only sorta
>work if you don't have lots of files (and permission bits!) set up correctly.
>Are you sure you really want that on your home computer?

I think the benefits outweigh those (potential) problems. There's nothing more
flexible. And one of the reasons why UNIX stuff is very hard to manage is
the UUCP/SLIP/whatever links, not the local stuff. And you would expect
newtork stuff to be complex, because the network is complex!

I'm not saying that UNIX is simple other than the network stuff. Only the net
stuff accoutns for a large part of it
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