Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] defending simplicity
From: Erik Steffl (esteffl_AT_pbi.net)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 22:15:48 EEST
actually, it's a good design philosophy (OK, it's not complete
philosophy, it's a part of it). it applies to programming (and life) in
general, not only to that particular example.
are you arguing with it or just correcting the scope/name of it?
I hope you're not suggesting that having arbitrary limits is a good
thing...
erik
David O'Toole wrote:
>
> Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> >
> > There are also some suggestions to not make unnecessary limits to programs.
> > See GNU coding style.
>
> Let's be honest here. That section of the GNU coding guidelines has to
> do with not statically allocating data structures. The example given is
> how some UNIXes' text processing tools silently truncate lines that are
> too long, which is unacceptable. Don't mistake this common-sense point
> for a design philosophy.
>
> --
> @@@ david o'toole
> @@@ dto_AT_gnu.org
> @@@ www.gnu.org/software/octal
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