> A file should be a single stream of bytes with a name. If you need another stream of bytes, create another file. If you need to group them together, that's wh

> A file should be a single stream of bytes with a name. If you need another stream of bytes, create another file. If you need to group them together, that's what directories are for. While I understand the appeal of this, the world would have been a lot simpler for a lot of stuff if (for example) every text file had tagged its encoding. I wonder about if we could have moved forward as society a touch faster if Unix wasn't "all byte streams", and had a touch of metadata. I feel like HTTP and friends shows we can just organically end up with a certain kind of structure that "works" (and at one point you have a spec, and then you can yell at programs that don't follow the spec)