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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:23:42 +0000 Subject: Re: (Excessive?) Complexity Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <3002e7b9-095e-c292-1202-b151f7776587@example.net> <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> From: "WokieSux282@ud0s4.net" Organization: WokieSux Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 23:23:44 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 59 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-uEcQxVdORtIulAQ9axeixLBLAO25mb25lbJe5dNQlHjjB4hbYQbaBZZQEgkKX5z4HhXlUqgyv4nXKk0!hTp65pTY97WW8Ad7jxNNz0ViKo9R8WW/NL6p+DSvuzbTSaVutI39I0cIXYN5K3N2mCefWBEskfmI!zBjQO2XQV8DWVv0SmZ25 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4947 On 2/8/25 2:31 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 08/02/2025 18:57, Lars Poulsen wrote: >> On 2025-02-08, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote: >>>     Anyway, of late, software "improvements" have >>>     too often been the exact opposite. What alien >>>     universe do these 'improvers' COME from ??? >>> >>>     IMHO, a lot of this is just "busy work" from >>>     people looking for something to do. Their >>>     idea of "better" means "better for ME - and >>>     screw YOU". It's not better for the average, >>>     or even professional, user. >>> >>>     Maybe we need a new branch ... Linux-2004 ... >>>     with all the good stuff and none of these >>>     "improvements" ??? Linux and related was >>>     damned good from the start, SOLID by 2004. >>> >>>     It worked. It was kinda simple. You COULD >>>     figure it out without committing suicide. >>>     NOW, it just seems to be becoming an >>>     incomprehensible ever-mutating MESS - Winders >>>     by another name. >> >> Much of the complexity that you do not approve of, seems to me to be >> related to Linux's ambition to produce code that works on everything >> from an embedded IoT device to a high-performance laptop to a clustered >> datacenter rack from a single set of source files. >> >> Back "in the Golden Age", the spectrum of systems that the code was >> expected to support was much narrower; that would tend to make the code >> much simpler and more readable. > > Nah. Its the stupidity not of using an oriented *approach* to design > code, but of putting it into the frickin language and making everyone > use it. Well, I kind-of understand his issue. The problem these days is SO-MANY-PLATFORMS. Developers, and esp their pointy-haired bosses, want a one-fits-all application. Alas this results in INSANE, un-debuggable, complexity. Aiming for more narrow platforms is probably the better way. The 90% required/functional code can be preserved, but all the crap required to suit *a* platform can be largely unique. Seems less-efficient, but is more solid. But who cares about 'solid' these days ? Make something arty and flashy, get the users cash - then ignore all their complaints. It's a Business Model ..... Remember the "bad old days" when we had Atari, Apple, Commodore, Tandy, TRS-80, ROM systems, CP/M, DOS ? It was just not feasible to write an "everything" application. A lot had to be customized to the particular platform. This made for a number of smaller, tuned, applications which WERE debuggable and comprehensible. Today really isn't SO different, but tends to be disguised - resulting in bloatware.