John, John, John.  You DO need a vacation, poor boy. 
        How could you possibly think that programming disciplines learned 
over 50 years of data processing could possibly have any application in 
this modern world?  Documentation of installations.  Heavens, 
documentation of programs is no longer relevant.  And user doc, hah, that 
is what blogs are for.  This is poppycock from gray haired relics and 
talking dinosaurs. 
        Why, you even tried to lay out a logical "tree" structure in your 
directories.  How quaint.  Don't you know that modern programmers get paid 
on the basis of how many directories they create?  Yes, it does not show 
up on their pay calculations, but it DOES pay off by making the structure 
virtually impossible to maintain, even for the person who created it. Why, 
I almost had a riot on my hands when I even suggested that an application 
have a single "root" directory and that all files of a given type (script, 
HTML, etc etc) have single common directories.  Open systems programmers 
KNOW that this can only lead to the greatest evil of all: CHANGE CONTROL 
!!!  No, never.  Open systems means open season. 
        No, you need to give up on such logical thoughts, John.  It will 
only affect your health and sanity.  Take refuge, as I have, in my new 
religion, Spaghetticodeism.  We believe that when "they" die, they get to 
spend the rest of eternity trying to maintain each other's apps. 

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