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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:13:38 +0100
From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de>
Files should have an header wich describes what type
of data the file
represents.
Why?
What is so terribly wrong with using the file's _name_ to describe the type
of data a file represents, so that those "humans" that you seem to disdain
elsewhere can also know and work with its type, not just the computer?
Always sad to see that in a community one would expect to be eager and open
to explore different and perhaps even better ways of doing things, this
sort of discussion so often is mostly just defending the status quo and
_arguing_ over DOS *versus* UNIX, Win vs. Linux, Apple vs. PC etc., even
sometimes to the point of insulting and name-calling, not to mention the
all-pervasive disdain and contempt for those unwashed [L]users 'out there'
whom all this is ultimately actually for and who indirectly pay most of our
salaries.
We are all in the same business/hobby after all and surely there are better
ways to spend our precious time...
But alas, it has ever been thus...
BTW, I think this quote from Ritchie himself sums it up perfectly:
"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."
m