Removing Software Complexity

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 3, 2003 @05:02AM from the breaking-it-out dept.

t482 writes "Charles Simonyi (ex Xerox Parc & Microsoft ) says that Software "has become a field where we focus on incremental improvements in processes. That course is futile, because it can never solve the problem of human imperfection." Even as software collapses under the weight of its own complexity, we've barely begun to exploit its potential to solve problems. The challenge, Simonyi believes, is to find a way to write programs that both programmers and users can actually read and comprehend. Simonyi's solution? To create programming tools that are so simple and powerful that the software nearly writes itself. "Software should be as easy to edit as a PowerPoint presentation," Simonyi asserts."

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Re:m_lpstrnzCharlesSimonyi by Ender+Ryan · 2003-11-03 05:44 · Score: 0, Flamebait

No kidding. Not the worst idea in the world, but 5 minutes of experimentation should have revealed to him (and all the fools who fucking fell for it) that its minor benefits were so completely outweighed by its flaws that it wasn't worth exploration.
Sheesh, ri-goddam-diculous :)

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Re:m_lpstrnzCharlesSimonyi by DAldredge · 2003-11-03 07:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

How brillant are you if your ideas do not work in the REAL WORLD?