14 Oct
2011
14 Oct
'11
12:32 p.m.
The slowness
is due to complexity, which is inherent in user-centric
software. If the program is going to be user friendly, it's going to have to
anticipate a user's needs and respond in a logical fashion. Each option you
give the user increases the complexity of code, sometimes exponentially.
Then explain why an OS (Windows and MacOS X for example) is so slow
and bloated? I'm not talking about the pretty layers of user interface
atop the OS, but the OS itself. We've had dialog boxes and pull-down
menus for decades, on machines whose memory measured in hundreds of
kilobytes and clock rates in the single-digit MHz. This stuff isn't
THAT complex, man!