My main beef was with the last bit - ""Infinite length" files allow sloppy, disorganized thinking and bad factoring. Definitions become longer without the disci

My main beef was with the last bit - ""Infinite length" files allow sloppy, disorganized thinking and bad factoring. Definitions become longer without the discipline imposed by the 1K block boundaries. The tendency becomes to write a 20K file, or worse: a 20K definition." This reeks of Stackholm Syndrome, where having toiled under the limitations of a system for some time and developed workarounds and jerry-rigs* to get by them, one begins to view them as strengths for no other reason than their familiarity. If nobody thinks like this any more though, congrats on escaping what is normally a sure route to smug weenie-ism. *Eg. later in the same section, Brodie suggests defining constants associated with block numbers as a sort of ersatz filenames