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From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Documentation (was On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 09:37:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10EC571B-A75C-47EE-BECC-1B1800B9843C@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VQU1hQ0FhxWg8ZC=U0VTG0gZQuQKzyn13DCdJwEKvRz2Q@mail.gmail.com>



> On May 20, 2024, at 8:43 AM, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com> wrote:
>   Sometimes in the process of doing that youd stop and think, "wait a minute--we don't really want it doing that".  Or you'd find that you bhad difficulty articulating exactly how a particular feature behaves.  That's a red flag that you've designed the feature to be too obscure and complex, or that there's something flat-out wrong with it.

that’s what i used doug mcilroy for! i especially remember that for mk(1).



  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-20 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-18 18:07 [TUHS] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-18 18:13 ` Brantley Coile
2024-05-18 18:18 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-18 18:52   ` Clem Cole
2024-05-18 19:19     ` Luther Johnson
2024-05-18 20:12       ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-05-18 19:32     ` Stuff Received
2024-05-18 18:22 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-19  8:58   ` [TUHS] The 'usage: ...' message. (Was: On Bloat...) Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-18 18:31 ` [TUHS] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS
2024-05-18 20:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-05-19  8:39   ` Marc Rochkind
2024-05-20  6:07     ` Adam Thornton
2024-05-20 15:43       ` [TUHS] Documentation (was On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools) Paul Winalski
2024-05-20 16:37         ` Andrew Hume [this message]
2024-05-20 18:38         ` [TUHS] " Yeechang Lee
2024-05-20 19:27           ` Phil Budne

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