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| From | Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system, uk.comp.sys.mac, comp.mobile.ipad |
| Subject | Re: The trouble with software |
| References | <do_ray_me-DEE327.12310308062014@aioe.org> |
| Message-ID | <efUkv.148696$dF4.101515@fx27.fr7> (permalink) |
| Date | 2014-06-08 08:27 +0100 |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
On 08/06/2014 03:31, dorayme wrote: > The trouble with software is often a result of it chewing off more > than it can swallow. There is often an impossible aim to be everything > to everyone. > > It's a big world, better for app makers to make *small* apps that do a > *very* limited number of things well, let other apps do other things. > > That used to be the theory behind software for the Acorn computers. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail. Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail>
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The trouble with software dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-06-08 12:31 +1000
Re: The trouble with software Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2014-06-08 08:27 +0100
Re: The trouble with software richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2014-06-08 11:49 +0000
Re: The trouble with software Jeremy <jeremy0505@gmail.com> - 2014-06-11 08:53 +0100
Re: The trouble with software Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-06-08 10:09 -0400
Re: The trouble with software Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-06-08 19:35 -0400
Re: The trouble with software dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-06-09 10:41 +1000
Re: The trouble with software jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2014-06-09 12:51 +1200
Re: The trouble with software Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-06-08 17:54 -0700
Re: The trouble with software RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2014-06-09 08:26 +0100
Re: The trouble with software ampersand@RhEyMpOnVoEtTiHsImS.co.uk (Martin S Taylor) - 2014-06-09 10:44 +0100
Re: The trouble with software Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-06-09 12:07 -0400
Re: The trouble with software Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-10 09:44 +1200
Re: The trouble with software "Alan Richardson" <jared.r@xtra.co.nz> - 2014-06-10 09:55 +1200
Re: The trouble with software Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-06-09 18:01 -0700
Re: The trouble with software RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2014-06-10 05:08 +0100
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