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Simple means "no handholding"; if I have to hold its hand, I have to think about it, which is not simple.
by msla 5y ago
Simple means "no handholding"; if I have to hold its hand, I have to think about it, which is not simple.
- Tsiklon 5y agoI’m reminded of the KISS principle - which is held in high regard on a number of distros. I would interpret “no handholding” to mean “easy to implement”. As I understand it - Simple, as a term of art, doesn’t often mean easy. Simplicity is elegance in design, though not necessarily elegance in implementation.
- oblio 5y ago> I would interpret “no handholding” to mean “easy to implement”. The implementer, developer, is one person (or a handful of people). As a general rule, since there a lot more users than developers, we should lean towards making lives easier for users. Software is used a lot more than it is written.