Re: “Standard” software

Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-06-30, Nuno Silva <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2026-06-30, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:53:46 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>
>>> It is not complex at all, by computer standards. Just four hundred
>>> lines and 15 columns, a table.
>>
>> There is an old engineering adage which says that, in any system,
>> complexity arises, not so much from the numbe of components, as from
>> the number of potential interactions between them.
>>
>> This applies to both hardware and software.
>
> That's easy to solve, we just need to create a new component to
> alleviate these interaction issues!
>
> (<http://enwp.org/WP:SARC>)

LOL!  Thanks for giving me a whole new area of Wikipedia to explore.

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