On: Everything Is an X

[whatshisface]

'nix doesn't actually think everything is a file. At most that's a user/programmer interface thing. Imagine how bad it would be if some insane zealot demanded that everything inside the kernel had to be a file!

[generalizations → whatshisface]

Yeah, I don't know much about kernel design. At least at the OS level, the 'everything a file' paradigm has made things far easier and cleaner.