Chapter 7. Treat Everything Like an Object—Because Everything Is
Early in my career I worked with a mainframe operating system that had a variety of file types. That old OS supported text files for your documentation, source files for your code, executable files for your programs, and data files for your output. Actually, “supported” is not really the right word. “Imposed with an iron fist” would be more accurate. Creating new files involved specifying the file type using a complex and arcane syntax. You needed to use one command for copying data files and a similar, but subtlety different, command for copying source files. Converting from one file type to another was a task worthy of a Ph.D. I’m sure that the designers of that ancient system ...
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