Hello Laslo! Am 30. Oktober 2019 17:38:27 MEZ schrieb Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de>: >On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:02:54 +0100 >Peter Wiehe <pe...@pwiehe.de> wrote: > >Dear Peter, > >> I didn't have simple programs in mind when I said "fast hack". >> Instead of fast hacks I could call it "direct coding with minimal >> design". Maybe that's not much of a difference. I think often >> developers themselves call it a fast hack. Sorry if that's >> disrespectful. I try to avoid that term in the future. >> >> So what do you think of Plan9 when you say simple UI programs are >> harder to maintain? > >central to every program, I think, are data structures. If you manage >to do that right, everything else seems to fall into place. That's at >least the experience I had over the last few years. > >Many people think that the UI somehow reflects data structures, but >often the opposite is true. Many people that develop software with >"simple UIs" often have a UI-driven approach, yielding horrible data >structures and lots of hacky code as they try to compensate the bad >data structures. > >If you ask me, if you find your data structures to be flawed and you >cannot fix it, you might as well start again and redefine your data >structures. This does not mean that your interface has to change, just >the internal representation. > >To answer your question in a way: Little code does not mean little >time, the opposite is true. It often takes a lot of time, >reconsideration and rewriting to formulate code that is short, elegant >and easy to maintain and extend. > >With best regards > >Laslo
So my question to you is: how do you put Linux and Plan9 into this scala? (I get the feeling you deliberately don't want to understand my question.) Kind regards Peter
