> Rob, > > Without a real context it is difficult to measure if lack-of-configuration > is laziness on the programmers part, or the genius of simplicity. Simplicity > indicates a programmer who anticipate the needs of the user in such a way > that it removes their constraints and increases performance to achieve their > goal. If the programmer only narrowly understands the needs of the tool they > are creating and is rebelling against their users because of how difficult > it is to achieve in their chosen programming paradigm, it is laziness and > annoying to users. I've seen both, I think most of us here have. >
Yeah, I guess. What I was getting at is adding too much configuration, really, just wanted to exaggerate my point.
