Ludovic Courtès on Nostr: Wirth’s “Plea for Lean Software” (1995) resonates with me. The problem is more ...
Wirth’s “Plea for Lean Software” (1995) resonates with me.
https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdfThe problem is more acute than ever. Sure, there are applications today that couldn’t exist 10 or 20 years ago; and yes, interfaces have improved.
Yet common tasks (messaging, web browsing, document authoring, software development) are not all that different but require much larger amounts of resources.
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