From: Ian Grant <ian.a.n.grant@googlemail.com>
To: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net>,
guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Running make as root and ./configure access to Makefile contents
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:10:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKFjmdw9E3z9GONb+WdaTuF9RhB-U4m7Zizm759PGxVqeWdgnQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKFjmdwydqsbBUEwvwtVZiLgbefDZrP-U+5+VhSxUjueUba6Cw@mail.gmail.com>
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From: Ed http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/misc/vanVlissingenInterview.html
As to the programming products that are used by people, I hardly have first
hand experience, my impression is that an enormous amount of user time is
wasted figuring out what the system does and how to control it, which is
the consequence of two sorts of happenings. First of all that the designers
have failed to keep the interface of a system as simple as possible—which
is a challenge; but as soon as you realize that the main challenge of
computer science is how not to get lost in the complexities of their own
making, it is quite clear that this is a major task.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-18 18:48 Running make as root and ./configure access to Makefile contents Ian Grant
2014-09-18 19:10 ` Ian Grant [this message]
2014-10-09 22:30 ` Mark H Weaver
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