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Henry Spencer  
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 More options Apr 24 1986, 5:44 pm
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From: he...@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Date: Thu, 24-Apr-86 17:44:31 EST
Local: Thurs, Apr 24 1986 5:44 pm
Subject: Re: xeroX slime ad warning
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> ...the Xerox Star software
> on which this machine is based is light-years beyond Suns for copying data
> between windows.  What it does it pass structure around, real manipulable
> objects with operations -- not just cutting and pasting ASCII text...

The other side of this is that Unix would not have one-tenth as many useful
utilities if everything had to understand complex structured objects on the
input.  Don't be so quick to assume that ASCII-text-based interchange is
grossly inferior.  One can always encode structured objects in ASCII, with
some penalty in speed and complexity over passing them directly... and then
a lot of other programs can manipulate them too.

There is a lot to be said for structured objects, mind you, but it's not
as one-sided as you suggest.
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