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From: ken@rochester.UUCP (De onbekende kat)
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Subject: Re: STREAMS
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 09:00:47 EDT
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In article <6651@boring.UUCP> jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:
>A clean design, that matches the implementation to the user interface in
>an elegant and easy-to-understand way is *much* easier to maintain and
>upgrade.

Hear hear. Also if the presented model is hard to understand, designers
are discouraged from building on it. Where would most of the U*
utilities be today if redirection, pipes, &c didn't have a clean model?

	Ken
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