Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,talk.politics.misc,alt.security Subject: Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday Date: 20 Jul 2024 04:30:29 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <87h6cl74ix.fsf@tilde.institute> <6zadnWcqHMl3Dgf7nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net s5pF1VmAGAv4q/r+/GsPWAnqesSwwrtfLeCIHtGBD8YygO4Ki/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ki16TOpdahhLC8tWY2zHu8pZPtQ= sha256:sImPAf0P3pRJ11nSmEW06ByAuDJ8MwxNdbWH34qP/kw= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:57045 talk.politics.misc:1154516 alt.security:1098 On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:53:05 -0400, 26yh.0712 wrote: > 'Complexity' CAN be a sort of weapon ... but in the > whole computer universe - and I got in pre-PCs - we're mostly looking > at 'feature creep' ... with every developer thinking they're doing > good. I've writ enough complicated software - and then you get back > to it and it's "Oh ... wouldn't it be great if it could do *this* and > *that* and look nicer ?". Pretty soon you have spaghetti code even > you yourself can't follow nor find all the possible flaws within. Feature creep cna happen up front. We've has a couple of programmers that wrote very flexible, complicated code to cover every future possibility they could think of. 20 years later the future stuff never happened and you're left with a maintenance nightmare.