I suspect it refers to Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science". I don't see it as a this-is-all-a-joke thing though, more tongue in cheek. also I think one-big-text

I suspect it refers to Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science". I don't see it as a this-is-all-a-joke thing though, more tongue in cheek. also I think one-big-text-file has a certain simplicity, like everything-is-a-file on unix (or more properly plan9)