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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:42:15 -0800
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:55:08 -0500
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

> The 'configurable' stuff ... sometimes you get a sort of next-level
> idea that SOUNDS great, but by the time you really get into it then
> it WOULD be just easier to write one-off reports or whatever.

There's probably a corollary to Zawinski's Law about programs expanding
to the point where every behavior is configurable (except the one thing
you really *need* to configure...)