Rob, Without a real context it is difficult to measure if lack-of-configuration is laziness on the programmers part, or the genius of simplicity. Simplicity indicates a programmer who anticipate the needs of the user in such a way that it removes their constraints and increases performance to achieve their goal. If the programmer only narrowly understands the needs of the tool they are creating and is rebelling against their users because of how difficult it is to achieve in their chosen programming paradigm, it is laziness and annoying to users. I've seen both, I think most of us here have.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Rob <robpill...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 March 2011 15:11, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On 3/2/11, Anselm R Garbe <ans...@garbe.us> wrote: > >> I'm saying that ideal software is barely configurable. > > > > Ideal for what purpose? > > "Barely" anything doesn't carry information if you put it in context > > with "ideal". > > You should have said: Ideal software doesn't suck. > > Does your $HOME have a .sedrc? How about .awkrc? .catrc, maybe? > Exactly. > >
