On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, David Bonner wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:41:28PM -0700, Keven R. Pittsinger wrote:
> > It's better to have a feature & not need it than need a feature and not have it.
>
> Not true at all. That way lies madness, feature creep, code bloat,
> and the office paper-clip bastard.
>
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> david bonner
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Worse. Unneeded features will not evolve with- /like the rest. The (far
off) day that --perhaps-- you will need them, you will:
i) want something different anyway, even if only slightly (same good
luck slot as in: buttered slice of bread --when it falls on the
floor, then always on the side of the butter);
ii) be surprised about how "well" they will work (classical example:
Fortran compiler); you will not gain time because you have to
rediscover how they have been implemented, and you have to debug
them.
