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Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2000 12:26:54 -0400
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> It would be nice if Pike could present a compelling argument.  His web
> page states only:

[The `web page' is just a very old class handout that propagated
far beyond its intended audience.]

My long note earlier today was supposed to explain better.

Here's a short version:
	Avoid complexity.
Flat structures are simpler than nested ones: simpler to write
and, more important, simpler to maintain.

If that doesn't compel you, I have nothing more to say.

As I said, in our world, our rules work well.  We cope with
outside software by following outside rules.  I do not expect
the world to switch to our way of handling #includes; I merely
ask that people writing code for Plan 9 try the Plan 9 way.

-rob