preece@uicsl.UUCP (05/18/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-18500:uicsl:21900006:000:639 uicsl!preece May 18 00:01:00 1984 I have a constant battle with myself, in designing software for Unix, over where to draw the line between purity and performance. Storing everything in flat ascii files in normal Unix directories is a very flexible approach, but it also makes it much harder to build a mail system that you can enter and leave fast enough, which is to say, virtually instantly. I hate to admit it, but I don't like programs that can't fill the screen instantly upon invocation, and a mail program is an especially galling example because its very nature is to be entered and exited frequently throughout the day. scott preece ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece