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In my experience if the designers of a technology felt the need to put the words "simple" or "lightweight" in to the name, it is usually the opposite.
by foreigner 5y ago
In my experience if the designers of a technology felt the need to put the words "simple" or "lightweight" in to the name, it is usually the opposite.
- throw0101a 5y agoLDAP is lightweight compared to X.500's DAP. SMTP is simple (and lightweight) compared to X.400.
- dmos62 5y agoThat's true, but then the next generation of technology would have to be named "Simpler". Names work best when they're non-judgmental. Simple, good, fast, etc. are things you want to avoid.
- varispeed 5y agoAlso because they made it, it may feel "simple" to them and it's "lightweight" because they cut corners...
- namelosw 5y agoHaha, that's how I always feel. For another example, SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. Feels the same way like horrible regimes usually have a lot of positive words in their name. Although I understand most of them are relatively simple compared to their predecessors rather than being truly simple or minimalistic.