The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That makes sense. But continuing that thought, I see Apple, which > doesn't try to make its OS be all things for all people (and hardware > manufacturers). Even if it *is* UNIX. nominally the argument is that complexity contributes to confusion and failures ... KISS is frequently better because it minimizes confusion which can be major source of failures, vulnerabilities, threats and exploits. however, another argument is that the solution paradigm has to match the environment ... that there can be enormous amount of complexity introduced when the solution paradigm is a mismatch for the environment that it is being applied to. slightly related thread discussing f18/f14, f16/f15, as well as f20 (with even a little computer related stuff sprinkled in) ... warning quite a bit of thread drift ... even tho there was a lot of numerical intensive computing that went into f16, f18, f20, etc: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#3 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#4 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#6 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#7 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#8 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#10 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
