Re: Software/HD ecology (was Re:...Bug in Emacs 21.3.50)

[Miles Bader]

Anil Trivedi <anil@null.invalid> writes:
> Unix was conceptualized for small systems and programs, where a user
> might know every file, and actually need it. Indeed, he either wrote it
> himself or copied from a friend he knew, and it was all in one
> language, whatever it happened to be. 
> 
> Now we have hundreds of thousands of files, know nothing about them,
> and routinely install packages that bring thousands of files and
> support more languages than the United Nations! All well and good, but
> as the system grows, the culture and the tools need to keep up too.

Feel free to plan the revolution, but this has little to do with emacs...

-Miles
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