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RE: Comment by Luminair
by dagw on Sun 24th Aug 2008 22:53 UTC in reply to "Comment by Luminair"
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If a car engine could be so simple that anyone could fix it, would you build it that way? I would. I don't want to need a car mechanic to fix my engine.

Car engines used to be basically so simple that anyone with reasonable mechanical aptitude could fix most problems. Then people started making demands like more horse power, lower weight, lower emissions, better fuel efficiency etc. So to accommodate all this engines needed to be more complicated.

So yea, car engines could be a lot simpler, but most people didn't want that, they wanted features.

Same with software, sure it could be more simple and stable and with less bugs, but at the expense of features. Most people aren't willing to make that trade off.

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