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by enriquto 2279 days ago
Why not? Beacuse of bad text editors? Or is there some fundamental reason about that?
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jfkebwjsbx 2278 days ago
Because it is extremely hard to work with it?

Same reason why we do not put programs in a single source file.

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omaranto 2278 days ago
Why is it extremely hard to work with the whole novel in a single file? Because most software for writing prose is not up to the task?
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