Am 30. Oktober 2019 15:52:36 MEZ schrieb Cem Keylan <ml_AT_ckyln.com>:
>Hello Peter,
>
>On 19/10/30 03:40PM, Peter Wiehe wrote:
>> Hi Laslo and list!
>>
>> Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de> schrieb am Di., 29. Okt. 2019 08:59:
>>
>> >
>> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:58:54 +0100
>> > Peter Wiehe <peter.wiehe2_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear Peter,
>> >
>> > > It seems that you like Plan9 and dislike the Linux kernel. And
>you
>> > > seem to agree to "Worse is Better" which is presented here:
>> > > https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
>> > > (I think "Better" is also called "It needs a tough
>cook/programmer to
>> > > make a chicken tender" or similar.)
>> > >
>> > > But that seems to be a contradiction! For me Plan9 seems to be of
>the
>> > > "better" kind (Some effort was done to create a simple interfac)
>and
>> > > Linux seems of the "worse" kind (Minimal effort in elegant
>design).
>> > > ("Better" and "worse" not judging but strictly in the context as
>> > > mentioned above.)
>> > >
>> > > Any clarification on this is welcome.
>> >
>> > I always understood the "Worse is better" principle to be an ironic
>> > take on many peoples' opinion that solutions with fewer features
>are
>> > worse than those with more.
>> >
>> > With best regards
>> >
>> > Laslo
>> >
>> OK. Then my questions are:
>>
>> a) Should one (in your opinion) program many features or few?
>>
>> b) Should one (in your opinion) go for the fast hack or the simple
>user
>> interface?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Peter Wiehe
>>
>>
>>
>Calling simple tools that are much more stable than most programs out
>there a "fast hack" is a little disrespectful in my opinion. The
>programs with the "simple user interface" are usually the hacky ones,
>as the codebase gets larger it gets harder to maintain. With such large
>codebase, developers tend to hack in their fixes instead of rewriting a
>faulty section. That is my opinion anyways.
>
>Best regards,
>Cem
Thanks for your opinion, Cem.
I didn't have simple programs in mind when I said "fast hack". Instead of fast hacks I could call it "direct coding with minimal design". Maybe that's not much of a difference. I think often developers themselves call it a fast hack. Sorry if that's disrespectful. I try to avoid that term in the future.
So what do you think of Plan9 when you say simple UI programs are harder to maintain?
Kind regards
Peter
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