New definition (Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)) [LWN.net]

New definition (Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic))

Posted Feb 25, 2008 21:41 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: New definition (Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)) by zlynx
Parent article: Emacs news: new maintainer, version 22 pretest

Agreed.

`Look! There's a wheel!'
`I know, let's reinvent it, and make ours square.'

Iterate for several dozen wheels.

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New definition (Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic))

Posted Feb 26, 2008 13:05 UTC (Tue) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] (1 responses)

The clear goal of any wheel-reinvention project is to rationalize pi, silly rabbit.

New definition (Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic))

Posted Feb 28, 2008 19:46 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

OpenOffice tries to have its pi and eat it, but it's eaten so many pis 
that it's got terribly fat.

*puts metaphor into concrete mixer and walks away*