example of general name space usage

[Doug Gwyn]

In some newsgroup, probably either this one or comp.std.unix, there has
recently been some debate about the utility of having all objects in a
single uniform name space.  While reading the paper "Plan 9 from Bell
Labs", I came across a marvelous example of why this IS a good idea:
A first draft of the "ps" process on Plan 9 would be just
	cat /proc/*/status
Think about it..