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Much of my blog is devoted to precisely this subject. (See for instance: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=16 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=16) I believe that the only s
by asciilifeform 17y ago
Much of my blog is devoted to precisely this subject. (See for instance: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=16 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=16)
I believe that the only solution to the complexity plague is a from-scratch reboot of all of computing.
- jacquesm 17y agoI share your belief. At the same time I think it is going to be like trying to replace the automobile piston engine with something better. The amount of money and time invested in the way we do things today is going to be a very large stumbling block to overcome in order to create a clean slate.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agorotary engines are pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BCgl2uumlI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BCgl2uumlI each time each piston reverses direction you're losing energy in a standard piston engine.
- jacquesm 17y agoFor some reason my brain showed me the picture of a star piston engine when you said 'rotary', my bad :) We call those 'Wankel' engines here. Pretty cool stuff. Beautful animation by the way!
- limmeau 17y agoI believe the complexity comes inevitably with code reuse and abstraction. Once you've got your ethernet driver working, you discover that your routable point-to-point packet exchange is useful in many places, so you extract an IP component, and before long, you're writing web applications in a high-level framework in a dynamic programming language again.