Screenshot of the intro of "A Plea for Lean Software".

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   Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 01:09:32 JST Ludovic Courtès

   Wirth’s “Plea for Lean Software” (1995) resonates with me.
   https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

   The 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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