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Somebody made up a "Rule of Least Power", which is taken as some sort of axiom, and then this article gets going from there without questioning the axiom furthe
by auggierose 3y ago
Somebody made up a "Rule of Least Power", which is taken as some sort of axiom, and then this article gets going from there without questioning the axiom further.
Yeah, why not. But consider this: JavaScript exists because the axiom does not hold for the web. Or rather, a programming language is the least power you need for a general platform such as the web.
- mst 3y agoThe article links to the original Tim Berners-Lee piece that outlines the rule and the reasoning for it. If you're unfamiliar with the name you might be well served to look up his contributions to the web first.
- auggierose 3y agoI know the name. I am not impressed by his reasoning. I mean, HTML and CSS being the result of the rule of least power? CSS is a mess, and there is nothing least about it.
- fbdab103 3y agoI have no idea what CSS 1.0 looked like, but I suspect it was an entirely different world when he made that statement. At that time, the web was really just blobs of text with the most minimal formatting. Not the basis for trillion dollar companies that want pixel perfect alignment.
- auggierose 3y agoThat might be. One more reason not to just take an axiom from these times, even if it comes from TBL, and base your reasoning for current tech on it.