Screenshot of the intro of "A Plea for Lean Software".
https://toot.aquilenet.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/754/682/722/897/251/original/b8f4bb03052402c5.png
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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