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Plain text is not guaranteed to function in the far future.
by vimslayer 7y ago
Plain text is not guaranteed to function in the far future.
- dredmorbius 7y agoOn a technical complexity scale, plain text is a hell of a lot less complex than CSS + JS + remote deps + whatever. Complexity is the enemy of reliability. A principle first stated in 1958 in The Economist. https://books.google.com/books?id=aDsiAQAAMAAJ&dq="complexity+is+the+enemy+of+reliability"+economist&focus=searchwithinvolume&q="complexity+is+the+enemy+of+reliability" https://books.google.com/books?id=aDsiAQAAMAAJ&dq="complexit...