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If "everything are files", then the whole concept of "file" is completely meaningless.


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Not really. It's a completely different statement than "everything is rocks". If everything is a file then everything shares properties common to files. It turns out that this is really useful. If everything were a rock then... well, let's say that it would not be so useful :-)




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