[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: A Surfeit of Sophistication - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting 2009-12-03
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Thu Dec 3 02:54:55 EST 2009
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Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
http://dlslug.org/
a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org
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The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held:
Thursday, December 3rd, 7-9PM
at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041
27 North Main Street, Hanover, NH
All are welcome, free of charge.
Agenda
5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash.
7:00 Sign-in, networking
7:15 Introductory remarks
7:20 A Surfeit of Sophistication
presented by Doug McIlroy
Hidden complexity in the service of simplicity is no vice. But
one's heart sags in the face of complexity that bubbles to the
surface in hundred-page "man pages" and thousand-line makefiles.
Software advances more often by sophistication (complication for
the benefit of cognoscenti) than by simplification (making
powerful technique accessible). Unix began as a great example of
the latter, but its proliferation into Linux/GNU mainly
illustrates the former.
Sophistication, unfortunately, is the easy way to get noticed,
while simplification is often subliminal. As an unabashed
cheerleader for the underdog, I will try to redress the
imbalance by looking at some incidents large and small of the
the tug-of-war between these two poles.
[originally the keynote speech at the Ohio Linux Fest - ed.]
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