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RE: Bloatware (OT)
- To: "'Daniel Feiglin'" <dilogsys(at-nospam)inter.net.il>
- Subject: RE: Bloatware (OT)
- From: Chen Shapira <chen(at-nospam)mercury.co.il>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:00:12 +0200
- Cc: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
> 3. Sloppy coding on the principal that if it works, who cares, and, as
> the link below point out, disk and memory are cheap. That's
> part of the
> wasteful western "comsumer" culture in which we live. It's worse than
> planned obsolescence: It's selling goods known to be faulty,
> beyond the
> norms of any other manufacturing process. The crunch, as
> pointed out by
> another contributor below, is when none of this stuff will
> work properly
> (if at all) in embedded systems.
Another cause is the exact oposite: Having good, maintainable, modular code
with clean extandable interfaces makes a program larger. Encapsulation takes
space, shared libraried take space.
This might be part of the windows curse - every application that needs to
read html (like word) will include a huge XML library (with 5 diffrent
parsers), even if it just needs one specific function.
> By the way, (and at the risk of starting a relegious war), I
> regard Java
> for all it's fantastic advantages (I use them too), as an incredible,
> systematic cover for sloppiness and bloat. Again, look at the VM
> requirement for a JFC hello world class, whether Windoze or Linux!
I'm not sure what you mean here.
You mean that all VM implementations are sloppily written?
Do you count the (huge) java standard library as part of the bloat?
Can you please elaborate? (since this isn't linux related at all, you might
as well answer me privately and avoid the war).
Thanks,
Chen.
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