Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:31:15 -0800 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] rcfs core patch |
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Herbert wrote: > personally, I'd prefer to avoid hierarchical > structures wherever possible,
Sure - avoid them if you like. But sometimes they work out rather well. And file system API's are sometimes the best fit for them.
I'm all for choosing the simplest API topology that makes sense.
But encoding higher dimension topologies into lower dimension API's, just because they seem "simpler" results in obfuscation, convolution and obscurity, which ends up costing everyone more than getting the natural fit.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
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