What is Nostr?
Ludovic Courtès /
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2024-01-14 14:13:24

Ludovic Courtès on Nostr: Wirth’s “Plea for Lean Software” (1995) resonates with me. ...

Wirth’s “Plea for Lean Software” (1995) resonates with me.
https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

The problem is more acute than ever. Sure, there are applications today that couldn’t exist 10 or 20 years ago; and yes, interfaces have improved.

Yet common tasks (messaging, web browsing, document authoring, software development) are not all that different but require much larger amounts of resources.

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