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   Ward Cunningham (k9ox@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 22:11:53 JST Ward Cunningham

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   • Michael Engel

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   Wirth makes a convincing argument. But then I get to wondering, in his environment would there ever have been a Wikipedia designed and written by its users in 300 languages? The universally bloated text layout and font rendering appears to have bought us something.

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     Michael Engel (me_@sueden.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 22:11:55 JST Michael Engel

     "A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built."

     Niklaus Wirth – A Plea for Lean Software

     https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

     esmevane, sorry repeated this.