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SubjectRe: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense)
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:
> Alan Cox writes:
> > What is the kernel tree. I do believe its a compound document
> > in a directory tree.

> The kernel tree is a collection of related documents.
> One could abuse a compound document system to store
> source code, but that would be a lousy idea. Source
> code doesn't have many of the normal document-like
> properties. For example:
>
> There isn't a well-defined and obvious way to print the
> whole thing.

Give me enough paper...

> Nobody would think of just cut-and-pasting the whole kernel
> source into another project. Going the other way is also a
> silly concept.

The kernel is a bit on the largeish side, granted. But "pasting source into
the kernel" is what this list is supposed to be about...

> One wouldn't embed a spreadsheet document into the kernel.

Nope. Better a database with lines modified, when and by whom and a nice
comment explaining why.

> One wouldn't embed a kernel source tree into a spreadsheet.

Makes no sense, yes.
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