Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 28. Feb 2025, 22:53:38
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:42:15 -0800, John Ames wrote:
There's probably a corollary to Zawinski's Law about programs expanding
to the point where every behavior is configurable (except the one thing
you really *need* to configure...)
Presumably he was talking about proprietary software. In any piece of Free
software, such a limitation would sooner or later be seen as a bug, and a
patch would be available to fix it.