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Does simple have to equal easy? An abacus is very simple, but its not easy to do advanced mathematics on it without prior training.
by farisjarrah 7y ago
Does simple have to equal easy? An abacus is very simple, but its not easy to do advanced mathematics on it without prior training.
- kstrauser 7y ago> Does simple have to equal easy? laughs in Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- raverbashing 7y agolaughs even harder in lightweight directory access protocol
- falcolas 7y agoscreams and runs away
- bashinator 7y agoAny protocol with the words "lightweight" or "simple" in the name, is not. Looking at you, SNMP.
- kstrauser 7y agoThe protocols themselves are lightweight or simple, but using them may not be. Imagine that your protocol for choosing dinner with your SO is: You: What would you like: Them: I don't care. There, simple! Getting some useful information out of that is an exercise left for the reader.
- bashinator 7y agoWonderful analogy - thank you for that.
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- ci5er 7y agoWell, it used to be. Before they discovered headers...
- Barrin92 7y agoif we're talking about it in the context of widespread user adoption then yes. At least it's a large part of it. It's not really helpful when people try to describe IRC as easy simply because it resembles text based paradigms that developers are familiar with.
- x3haloed 7y agoI think the missing subtlety here is simple design vs. simple to use or simple to learn. Vim is very simple in design, but not at all simple to learn.