<story><title>Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles</title><url>https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acabal</author><text>I hate having dotfiles in ~/ for the same reason why I hate &quot;My Documents&quot; in Windows: because it&apos;s supposed to be &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; space that &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; organize, not a generic dumping ground for your config files, brand-named folders, or other nonessential garbage.&lt;p&gt;I want my space to be &lt;i&gt;mine&lt;/i&gt;.  Keep your app&apos;s stuff out of there!</text></comment>
<story><title>Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles</title><url>https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>caf</author><text>The fact that &quot;.&quot; and &quot;..&quot; were allocated actual directory entries and were returned when reading the directory, rather than just being handled by the kernel when parsing pathnames seems like the original sin of expediency here.</text></comment>