On 2018-05-01, Jan Panteltje  wrote:

> On a sunny day (Tue, 1 May 2018 09:40:34 +0100) it happened The Natural
> Philosopher  wrote in :
>
>> C sits nicely between  the overwight syntax and non portability of
>> assembler, and teh ineffeicient and unintelligent langeuages of computer
>> scientists, who instead of respecting the hardware upon which their code
>> nust run, as COBOL, FORTRAN and B/BCPL/C did, instead ignore it in their
>> search for symmetry elegance and presumably geek status, whils what they
>> have implemented rumbles along overblown and overweight and bug filled.
>
> Nicely stated
> As to data bases, I once started making records for my CD/DVD/BDR disk
> collection, and got fed up really fast (entering records).
> Now use one big text file and search with editor or use:
> cat dvd-list.txt | grep movie_name
> cat dvd-list.txt | grep amovie
>  shows all the movies I have, and their length in bytes, any other
> important info, gives you disk number... and all that is on it.

It's simple, it does the job - what more could you want?

> Maybe the best way to sell bloat is not educate people of the right way
> to do things, of the underlying system architecture.

"Ignorance is strength."  -- George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

It makes lots of money for the software vendors, though...

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