Enhancing software using the stupidity paradigm [was Re: cdburners]

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Wed Feb 6 11:24:59 2002

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Lawrence LeMay wrote:

> The last real impressive software we developed was Gopher. I can still
> remember when any sane person had realized Gopher was dead, I asked
> why they were still holding these yearly Gopher conferences, and the
> guys started gushing about "3D Gopher" that was going to be all the rage.
> And yes it sounded as absurd to me then as it does in hindsight today.

Yes, and as we all know, adding dimensions to your software's user
interface immediately makes it more advanced and powerful. Yeah, I'm
working on creating a 4-dimensional `vi'. It's gonna be so damn cool.

-brian.
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 11:24:59 GMT