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| Newer page: | version 11 | Last edited on Monday, July 21, 2003 5:06:20 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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Software developers often start with a nice simple program. They will add features to this program as they see fit, until it fulfills all the functions required of it. If this program falls into the hands of [MarkeTroid]s however, 4 billion spurious features will be added to the program just to force the end user to upgrade to the latest and greatest version. This is known as [Bloat]. It is the reason "todays" software is hundreds of times larger and much slower than older versions, despite exponential increases in the hardware it runs on. Developers - combat with AntiBloat.
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"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."'' -- attributed to
JamieZawinski
+; __Zawinski
's Law__ :
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." Coined by
JamieZawinski (who called it the "Law of Software Envelopment") to express his belief that all truly useful programs experience pressure to evolve into toolkits and application platforms (the mailer thing, he says, is just a side effect of that). It is commonly cited, though with widely varying degrees of accuracy.
-There is also the popular addition ''Except for [Microsoft] Exchange.''
--AristotlePagaltzis
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-;: ''Tell me about this - are you referring to it as a joke as in "install everything except for Exchange" or is there something real that Google didnt tell me about? -- CraigBox''
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-;: ''Oops. I blundered, didn't notice there was something different. The actual non-Zawinski quote is ''Every program expands until it can __send__ mail (addendum: except [Microsoft] Exchange).'' -- AristotlePagaltzis''
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These programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.'' -- [Me|
PerryLorier]
+;: Now it is that ''every program attempts to expand until it can surf the web. These programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.'' -- PerryLorier
