I have no clue who this guy is, and the slides are very nice and all, but after a very quick look found some big mistakes:
- The same pointless and stupid fetish about lines of code, this is just as dumb as those that calculate the $$ value of a project by counting lines of code, what matters is not the number of lines, but the complexity of those lines and of the whole system. Yes, all other things being equal less lines of code is always better, but that is obvious enough. I have seen too many times people making code more convoluted in the name of getting rid of one line of code. - In slide 36 he advocates unification of code and data, this is a very bad idea, data should come first and be modeled, and code should follow from there. That said, it would be nice to have a whole recording of the talk and not just the slides, maybe some things were qualified more carefully during the talk. That said, I didn't see any explicit reference to suckless. Peace uriel On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Nathan Neff <[email protected]> wrote: > Just thought I'd mention that I was at the Strange Loop > conference in Saint Louis a few weeks ago, and I cheered > when Alex Payne mentioned suckless.org in his keynote speech. > > http://www.slideshare.net/al3x/strange-loop-2009-keynote-minimalism-in-computing > > Check out slide 29 -- has a quote (perhaps from Suckless philosophy) > > --Nate >
